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Centered on Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities and discussions of authorship, the compositional process, and how intentions relate to the text. The piece interrogates whether interviews and author “names” (pseudonyms) explain meaning, concluding that value depends on reading and critical analysis rather than authorial testimony.","TEXT Vol 2 No 2 Hugh Martin  \nLa Trobe University  \nHugh Martin  \nInto the Millennium: The NeverEnding Novel (Reflections on Closure)  \nBRISBANE. JULY. It is a particularly warm evening, but strangely dry, and I have finished work for the day. The  \nuniversity where I work as a part-time tutor in Australian literature while I write my PhD is in a picturesque setting  \non the Brisbane River-sandstone buildings, acres of playing fields, jacarandas, bougainvillea, poincianas and  \nmoreton bay figs, a lake, flower gardens...  \nThe thesis has been three-quarters written for some time now-An Examination of the Un-ending of Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities (an examination of the what? A what of the what ending?) . On the occasions when I am able to contemplate why I find myself in this stalled position I can only think of the project as artificial light thrown  \non a non-problem, begun in a misguided conviction of usefulness and significance.  \nBut I enjoy teaching (the opportunity to escape into ozlit from the claustrophobia of Musil's universe), and the interaction with the two groups of second year students most of whom have actually read the texts: (Henry Handel Richardson) The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney,(Christina Stead) Seven Poor Men of Sydney,(Gerald Murnane) Tamarisk Row,(Tim Winton) Cloudstreet, and (Amanda Lohrey) The Morality of Gentlemen. It sounds like an odd grouping of novels, I know, but the idea is to trace a movement in Australian literature from a late-Victorian style  \nthrough twentieth century modernism to postmodernism. It's the sort of course that could fall flat on its face, but I'm  \nlucky to have a group of bright students who not only engage the texts and ideas, but constantly challenge me and  \nquestion the theoretical principles that underpin the discussions we have in class.  \nToday was a good example. In one of the groups are two budding writers (I don't know this for a fact, but I have my  \nsuspicions) both of whom are interested in whether the processes of writing can be communicated and what the  \nfiction says about the author. It is a delicate question and this afternoon it distracted us from our discussion of Tommy Quinn and the representation of unionism in The Morality ofGentlemen. One of the students, Karen, said she thought the author must be a communist (she was intensely scornful- \"Capitalism has proved its superiority! How  \ncan an apparently intelligent person cling to such an outdated concept?\")  \nI was a little disappointed, but Karen insisted that she wanted to get inside the author's head to try and discover what motived the writer to write this particular book in this particular way. I guess my disappointment came from the fact that it's the sort of question that should have been dealt with in Introductory Literary Theory IT102 . I am sympathetic to this line of questioning though, and we spent the remaining forty-five minutes of the class grappling with it.  \n'Fiction is a particular type of text created by an individual in a certain historical situation in a particular manner,' I began. This satisfied no one.  \n'We know that,' they said. 'But what can we learn of the author's intentions? The compositional process?'  \n'All we have is the text,' I said. 'We can't assume an affinity between Tommy Quinn and Amanda Lohrey beyond the fact that the character is an imaginative construct of the designated author, unconnected to the person who may or  \nmay not even be Amanda Lohrey.'  \n'But she is,' they said. 'We've seen her interviewed.'  \n'Yes, but the person you saw being interviewed was not the same as the name we associate and identify as the author  \nof this text.'  \n'But she was talking about this book.'  \nI took a deep breath. 'Let me put it this way: the author of The Morality ofGentlemen is one aspect of the personAmanda Lohrey. Think ofit in terms of a pseudonym,' I said. 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