Remember Babylon Analysis

On the face of it Remembering Babylon strives to integrate the antipodean poles felt to be constitutive of a renewed, dual, dialectical sense of identity proper to Australians. However, this metaphorical strain does not prevent Malouf from considering himself a (creative) scribe of culture in Australia, who sees it as his own vocation to ‘mythologize’ the country’s history and national experience in such a way that he might find, or forge, ‘real spiritual links between us and the landscape, us and the cities, us and the lives we live here’.6
Amanda Nettelbeck commented that ‘In Malouf’s novels, there is no verifiable ‘history’ of the world, but rather a complexity of private histories (or narratives) which each ‘write’ a unique world.’7 REFERENCE