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John Fraser
ABOUT HIS FICTION
Contents
· Background
· Writing career
· Published fiction
Background
John Fraser was born in London. He has
worked in the UK (Cambridge, Leicester and Reading), Canada (Sudbury and
Kitchener-Waterloo), and Italy (Ferrara and Rome). He now lives near Rome.
Writing
career
About
his writing:
John Fraser's work follows an epic pilgrimage by a shapeshifting narrator,
whose initial commitment and doubts turn to disbelief in a goal, or in a
cause to be honoured. Still,the travelling is the thing; always an
adventure, with tales invented, overheard, or encompassing and experienced.
Academic
career:
Fraser was directed towards an academic career, which never fitted well. He
was always sceptical about his place in the institutions he was working in
(and the country), and their relevance to the principal subjects he worked
on. The early book on Galvano della Volpe was a fair conspectus on a
significant and ambitious philosopher, and some of the subsequent work
pointed towards a new interpretation of Marx's theoretical writings, but
his concentration on fiction overtook these concerns. See further details on Fraser's academic career.
Recent
work:
In the past few years, episodic novels and interlinked novellas (The
Case, Down from the Stars, Enterprising Women, Animal
Tales, Three Beauties and (forthcoming) The Red Bird, Thirty
Years and Happy Always) have seen the narrator-pilgrim trekking
the world, and even the cosmos. Political power and cultural productions
leave the protagonist undefeated but sorely tested by the struggle to stay
alive in the hottest margins of modernity.
The
writer and poet John Fuller comments:
A serious novelist from the beginning. I have always
been tremendously impressed by both the conceptual depth and the fey
fantasy of all that he does – not to mention the politics.
Published
and forthcoming fiction
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Best Friends, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2020
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Black Masks, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 1984, 2009
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Blue Light, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2011
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The Case, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2012
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Confessions, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2020
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The Cure, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2022
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Down from the Stars,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2013
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The Ends of the Earth, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2020
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Enterprising Women, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2013
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Exploring the Clouds,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2021
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The Future’s Coming Everywhere,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2020
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Happy Always, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2016
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Hard Places, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2011
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An Illusion of Sun, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 1958, 2011
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The Magnificent Wurlitzer,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 1989, 2009
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Military Roads, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2012
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Medusa, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2010
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The Observatory, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 1968, 2010
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The Other Shore, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 1970, 2010
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People You Will Never Meet,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2019
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The Red Bird, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2016
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The Red Tank, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2010
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Runners, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2010
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'S', AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2018
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Short Lives, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2017
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Sisters, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2017
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Soft Landing, AESOP
Modern, Oxford, 2011
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The Storm, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2012
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Strangers and Refugees,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2020
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The Test, AESOP Modern,
Oxford, 2022
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Unsteady States, Vol. I, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2022
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Unsteady States, Vol. II, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2023
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Unsteady States, Vol. III, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2023
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