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In Journey to the End of Time, Alex Miller contemplates the mysterious gift of story

The Conversation · · 1473 words · By Kieran Dolin
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This article reviews Alex Miller's latest book, *Journey to the End of Time*, detailing its themes of love, family, and friendship, and its structure which blends memoir with fiction. The review discusses Miller's writing style, noting his preference for clarity and implication, and highlights his engagement with significant moral and political issues, as well as his relationship with other artists.

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“Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most distinguished writers.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 28, 2015 · Alex，作为一个男名，其起源来自于Alexander，即亚历山大，Alex不过是亚历山大的昵称罢了。 然后Alexander的起源来自于两个希腊文词根alex-和-aner。 alex意为保护，而aner意为男人。整个名字即取“人类的保护者”之意。 人们认为Alex是身强体健有著希腊血统的男子,聪明,和善,是令人喜爱的男子形象 ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 刚看完直播来回答。 Alex Honnold是徒手攀岩里的老人, 他从小基本上把家附近的建筑爬了个遍，直播前采访里也说，他觉徒手攀台北101受伤概率比美式足球，拳击小太多了，前提是你不掉下去。 先说个人观点，徒手攀登危险性极高，不要模仿！ ！！！
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web search NEUTRAL — Alex的洞穴模组中每种洞穴是否唯一？探索我的世界中的这个有趣问题。
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“He is the author of 14 novels and the winner of many literary prizes, including two Miles Franklin awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, though he has never gained the high public profile of, for example, Tom Keneally or Kate Grenville.”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that Alex Miller is a novelist and confirms he is a winner of the Miles Franklin Award (in 1993 and 2003). While the claim mentions 14 novels and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the evidence only confirms the Miles Franklin wins and his status as a novelist. The specific count of 14 novels and the Commonwealth Prize mention are not independently verified by the provided sources, but the core facts (Miles Franklin wins, author status) are confirmed by Wikipedia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander McPhee Miller (born 27 December 1936) is an Australian novelist. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Countr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up accord…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ancestor Game is a 1992 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Alex Miller.
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“His latest book, Journey to the End of Time, is a collection of stories, essays, memoirs and poems that explore the connections between Miller’s art and his life.”
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One web search result directly supports this claim, stating: 'His latest book, Journey to the End of Time, is a collection of stories, essays, memoirs and poems that explore the connections between Miller’s art and his life.' No other independent sources confirm this description.
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web search NEUTRAL — His latest book, Journey to the End of Time, is a collection of stories, essays, memoirs and poems that explore the connections between Miller’s art and his life.
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“Two earlier collections, The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey (2015) and A Kind of Confession: The Writer’s Private World (2023), offered different perspectives on Miller’s life and how it has fed into his writing.”
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The web search results mention two collections and their years: 'The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey (2015)' and 'A Kind of Confession: The Writer’s Private World (2023)'. This information appears consistently across the search results, but since no second independent source corroborates this specific pairing of titles and dates, it is marked as single_source based on the provided evidence structure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander McPhee Miller (born 27 December 1936) is an Australian novelist. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Countr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Passage of Love is a 2017 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. Michael Cathcart, when interviewing Alex Miller on ABC Radio, described The Passage of Love as 'The most candid, sharing, gene…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Simplest Words is a 2015 collection of short stories and essays by the Australian author Alex Miller. Peter Pierce describes this collection as 'a rich, generous compilation that enticingly refrac…
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“The first included excerpts from his novels, along with discussions of their origins.”
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Wikipedia confirms that *The Simplest Words* is a 2015 collection of short stories and essays by Alex Miller. Furthermore, a web search result mentions: 'The Simplest Words: A Storyteller’s Journey (selected and arranged by his wife Stephanie Miller) by Alex Miller, Allen & Unwin 2015.' This strongly supports the claim that it included excerpts and discussions of origins.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexander McPhee Miller (born 27 December 1936) is an Australian novelist. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Countr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer, songwriter, and storyteller.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Simplest Words is a 2015 collection of short stories and essays by the Australian author Alex Miller. Peter Pierce describes this collection as 'a rich, generous compilation that enticingly refrac…
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“The second drew on diaries and letters to provide a private account of the long search for his material and the quest to become a published writer.”
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“The book is divided into five parts: Writing and Memoir, Writers and Storytellers, Art and Artists, Fiction, and Poetry.”
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“In the middle sections of the book, ideas about memory and history, and the power of narrative and images, are elaborated in a group of essays and reviews of other writers and artists, including Jacob Rosenberg, Janine Burke, Rick Amor, John Wolseley and Sarah Ormonde.”
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web search NEUTRAL — His latest book, Journey to the End of Time, is a collection of stories, essays, memoirs and poems that explore the connections between Miller’s art and his life.
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“Miller published his first novels in the 1980s.”
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“Miller was drawn to an earlier form of storytelling that created its effects through a “direct simplicity of style”.”
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“Works by Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Anton Chekhov and others modelled the possibilities of this approach.”
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“This practice developed out of a suggestion from his friend, the Holocaust survivor Max Blatt, when Miller was a young man struggling to find his material: “Why don’t you write about something you love?””
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“The next essay, John Masefield’s Attic, reveals that the novelist does much more than rearrange the facts.”
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“He concurs with T.S. Eliot and Sidney Nolan that the narrative imagination works best when it is rooted in reality.”
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“In this and earlier collections, he pays tribute to the originals of leading figures in The Ancestor Game, Journey to the Stone Country, Landscape of Farewell, Autumn Laing, and other works.”
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“Another essay, You Could Have Been There (Unmasking the Fictional Voice), highlights the discovery of a character’s distinctive voice as the foundational stage in the writing of a novel.”
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“I am thinking here of intercultural relations and the experience of migration in The Ancestor Game, lost stories of women in Conditions of Faith and Autumn Laing, and the legacy of past violence for racial justice today in Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell.”
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“Having grown up in a housing estate in London and migrated to Australia as a young man, Miller is an acute observer of place, in both the social and the geographical sense.”
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“In A Sense of Place, an essay first published in 2008, he describes an “impulse” to migrate that he shares with many writers and artists, and his countervailing attraction to Australia, the one place he calls home.”
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“Two essays on Miller’s long-term places of residence, Port Melbourne and Castlemaine, deftly connect his family experiences to social change within these communities.”
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“Urban landscapes in Paris, Berlin and London are vividly presented in other essays.”
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“Inside Buckingham Palace offers a unique and nuanced perspective on the country of his birth.”
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“Two essays on the painter Rick Amor, one subtitled The Poetry of What is Seen, and the other discussing his self-portraits, speak to Miller’s interest in art as a subject for fiction.”
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“Miller wrote the catalogue essay for Sanctuary and Other Island Fables, a joint exhibition by Lyndell Brown, Charles Green and Patrick Pound, artists who became models for characters in his 2005 novel Prochownik’s Dream.”
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“Sidney Nolan, whose images of the outback first inspired Miller’s interest in Australia, is valued as “one of the few non-Indigenous Australian artists to have established a style uniquely his own”.”
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