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The Dead are Many: A Novel in Fugue Form
by Frank Hardy.
Stained Wattle Press, Westgate (NSW), 1986.
Reprint, paperback.
(Titled But the Dead are Many for other editions).
“Set in the early ’70s, But the dead are many locates itself inside the CPA during the bitter dispute over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The party later split over this issue…
Greeted on its publication in 1975 as Hardy’s masterwork, But the dead are many has worn well these last 19 years. Never a slouch when it came to self-congratulation, Hardy called it the quintessential literary work of the communist movement. Given its loyalties and its intelligent pursuit of the experience of his generation, Hardy may be right.
But regardless of its political explorations, the novel is a suspenseful and moral tale brilliantly realised. The crude structure and phrasing of his early works are displaced here by a mature and confident handling of complex themes seldom pursued in literature — particularly in the realist tradition that Hardy subscribed to.” (Dave Riley, ‘Frank Hardy’s masterwork’, Green Left, 23 March 1994).
Condition: Very good.
