330:âSeveral kilos of transatlantic, boat-rate typescript arrived on my stoop without prior warning of contents, and Iâve been grateful ever since. Dara shows how a novel can be experimental, yet moral, rule breaking but emotional, and post-humanist while still remaining deeply human. This scrapbook builds in stretches until the whole police blotter cum family album lies open in aerial view. Monumental, unforgiving, cunning and heartfelt, it lets no one off the hook, least of all the reader.â
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Widely believed to be using a pseudonym, Dara has given no interviews and has issued no photographs, and has chosen to publish his novels through his own press, Aurora. His work has been almost totally unacknowledged by the commercial
American literary communityâAustralian critic Emmett Stinson has
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In 2020, the critic Daniel Green published the first comprehensive look at Dara's novels, called "Giving Voice: On the Work of Evan Dara." Green writes that: "n the challenge they pose to the assumption that the conventional patterns define the novel as a form, Daraâs novels are arguably the most
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Dara's books have been the subject of numerous scholarly articles and theses, and have been taught in dozens of colleges and universities across the world, while being published in at least a half a dozen languages, including
Spanish, Portuguese, and Russianâsomething virtually unknown amongst
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was a novel in dialogue and checked it out from The
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called Dara "the best-kept secret in all of contemporary
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