''Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs'' is the title of a collection of essays by

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writer

Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...

, published by

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in 2005. The essays were originally published in various journals such as '' The Age Monthly Review'', ''

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'' and '' Scripsi'' over a period of twenty years from 1984 to 2003 and include many reflections on Murnane's own writing and his reading, particularly in essays such as "Why I Write What I Write" and "The Breathing Author".

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* *Murnane, Gerald (December 1986)
"Why I Write What I Write"
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