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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
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Confessions,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2020
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The Cure, AESOP
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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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Fake Fur, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2022
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FISH, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2024
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Future’s Coming
Everywhere
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2020
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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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Medusa, AESOP
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Mercenaries,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2023
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Military Roads,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2012
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The Other Shore,
AESOP Modern, Oxford, 1970, 2010
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Paradise, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2023
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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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