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In the preface to the revised text of To the Islands (1982), Randolph Stow wrote:
I began my Note to the original edition with the curt statement: ‘This is not, by intention, a realistic novel’, which has been misinterpreted as a sort of manifesto. In fact, it merely expressed my irritation with the tyranny, in Australia, of social realism. In the 1950s novelists, one gathered, were supposed to concern themselves with Statistical Average Man, and he did not interest me.
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Wilding, M. (1991). Australia. In: King, B. (eds) The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-64112-3_2
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