Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity

Andrew McCann

Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Anthem Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 June 2015
Pages
176
ISBN
9781783084043

Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity

Andrew McCann

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country’s most politically engaged writers. These terms - recognition, commercial success, political engagement - suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas’s fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. ‘Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique’ traces these contradictions against Tsiolkas’s acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.

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