Graeme gibson biography of mahatma

Graeme Gibson has a solid reputation among Canadian novelists, based on both his fictional writings and his activities in cultural politics.

Graeme gibson biography of mahatma

His first two novels, Five Legs of 1969 and Communion two years later, are relatively short works, with decidedly modernist styles; Perpetual Motion of 1982 has a more clearly delineated narrative and narrator; and Gentleman Death, published in 1993, cuts between a writer's life and lives in his writings.

In 1973 Gibson also contributed a collection of interviews titled Eleven Canadian Novelists; although not itself fiction, this work reveals something of Gibson's concerns about the professional pursuit of writing in questions repeated to different writers.

Five Legs, Gibson's first novel, tells the story of the gathering of several people for the funeral of a student acquaintance.

Its first half consists of the perspective of Lucan Crackell, a university lecturer and mentor of the deceased, who has been co