Jim Crace
Photograph © Tim Wainwright.
'A writer of hallucinatory skill'
John Updike
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Please visit the Highlights page
for archived material
from the launch of this website
in January 2000
New essay on ‘Being Dead’
Jim Crace’s
award-winning 1999 novel of ‘belief, death and the search for
transcendence’
has inspired numerous critics and readers (visit the Being Dead page
for a summary, discussion and extracts from selected reviews).
Now Stephen Palmer has written an exploration of the novel’s ‘liminal space’.
‘Dead but not departed yet’
is published in March 2012 in the journal Mortality.
Stephen Palmer writes:
“This
piece grew out of an increasing fascination with the book,
and from an abiding interest in the presence of the dead in our culture.
It takes as its starting point the notion of liminality
as developed by the anthropologist Victor S. Turner,
and employs this in an exploration of Being
Dead
as both a representation of aspects of the liminal
state,
and as itself a kind of ritualised response (a sort of mourning, perhaps)
prompted by Crace's own experience of
death.”
To read an abstract
of the essay, visit Mortality.
A limited number of copies are available from the author:
please contact aghewitt@yahoo.com and I
will forward your request.
Please see
Note on copyright at the bottom of this contents page.
This
site is for information about the writer Jim Crace.
Much
archived material, including interviews, uncollected short stories, excerpts
from novels,
journalism and comment, can be found by following the link to Highlights,
or using the section headings in the left-hand frame.
This web
site was launched in January 2000.
To read archived material from this site click
News and highlights to Jan 2012
This
site also contains the following sections:
Chronology: a
brief biographical and literary chronology.
Books: a
discussion of Jim Crace's novels,
with extensive links and pointers to reviews and commentary about them.
This is the main section of the site. I invite ideas and contributions
from anyone with an interest in Crace's work.
Other writings: a
list (and some e-texts) of other writing by Crace,
including his first published stories, plays, journalism, reviews and opinions.
Forthcoming: notes
(where available) on forthcoming publications
Context: links
and pointers to information and discussion about
themes present in Crace's work, including exclusive interviews with
Jim Crace.
Feedback: where
you tell me about yourself and how to improve the site.
Jim Crace
I would
like to hear from anyone with ideas for content and links.
Please email me, Andrew Hewitt, at aghewitt@yahoo.com.
Last update: March 2011
Note on
copyright:
Original
material on this web site is © Andrew Hewitt 2000-2009
and is available for literary non-commercial uses only.
Repurposed material is copyright as shown.
Please feel free to contact me if you want to reproduce any material
from this web site, I will try and help arrange permission if you require it.