Mural

Mural is a haunting ‘confession’ by a psychopath known only as D. Held in a secure facility, he has been asked by his psychiatrist to write down his thoughts, admissions, anxieties and uncertainties. Specifically, D is preoccupied with a British man who spent his early years as a schoolteacher in Australia before becoming a renowned sexologist. D is also consumed by Napier Waller, Australia’s most prolific public artist, a man whose highly erotic watercolours are at odds with his stained-glass church windows. He also recounts the true tale of a French man who went mad because he believed prehistoric stones in Brittany were shifting. Mural is daring, acknowledging the influences of European writers such as Thomas Bernhard and W. G. Sebald while moving into new and original territory. It is both provocative and tender, a highly explosive fable about sexuality, religion, art and obsession.

Mural by Stephen Downes

Out 1 September from Transit Lounge

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