Koka-kola kid

by Frank Moorhouse

U Murhausovim pričama najpre se zapažaju dve važne pripovedačke osobine: izvanredna pripovedačka lakoća i prodorna percepcija savremenog života, koja se u pripovedačkom tkivu boji prizvukom ironijsko-parodijskih značenja. Kao mlad pripovedač koji zrelo nasleđuje moderan koncept pripovedačkog realizma iz pedesetih, oličen u umetnosti jednog Selindžera, ranog Apdajka i ranog Kepota, Murhaus govori o svetu kojem pripada i koji najbolje poznaje. Često je zbog toga njegov pripovedački glas u stvari glas mladog intelektualca i pisca, ironično izdvojen iz vladajućeg životnog pragmatizma društva obilja u kojem živi, koji u isti mah izražava životnu neprilagođenost kao moralni dug mladalačkim idealizma i levičarskim opredeljenjima. Drugi krug priča vezan je za doživljaje mladog Amerikanca Bekera, pametnog i moralno pritisnutog „misionara tehnologije“ se privlačnim znakom Koka-kole. Njegove dogodovštine u Australiji, susreti sa običnim Ijudima, sentimentalne zgode i sudari sa iskošenim domaćim nazorima, dati su u blagom satiričnom naboju koji razgaIjuje čitaoca.

Genres: Fiction

239 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Frank Thomas Moorhouse AM (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer. He won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States and also translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, and Swedish.

Moorhouse was perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.

The author of 18 books, Moorhouse became a full-time fiction writer during the 1970s, also writing essays, short stories, journalism and film, radio and TV scripts.

In his early career he developed a narrative structure which he has described as the 'discontinuous narrative'. He lived for many years in Balmain, where together with Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes, he became part of the "Sydney Push" - an anti-censorship movement that protested against rightwing politics and championed freedom of speech and sexual liberation. In 1975 he played a fundamental role in the evolution of copyright law in Australia in the case University of New South Wales v Moorhouse. - Wikipedia