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Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is the much-loved story of how a compassionate, honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
Raimond Gaita was born in Germany in 1946. He is Emeritus Professor of moral philosophy at Kings College London, and a Professorial fellow at the Melbourne Law School and the faculty of Arts of the University of Melbourne.
His books have been published in many translations. They include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity, The Philosopher's Dog and Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism (as editor and contributor). A feature film of Romulus, My Father was released in 2007, and won the AFI award for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Young Actor.
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Romulus, My Father
Raimond Gaita’s memoir, Romulus, My Father(1998), tells the story of Gaita’s father, Romulus, who immigrated to Australia from Yugoslavia in the early 1950s. Romulus suffered from mental illness and struggled to raise his son, Raimond, after the suicide of his wife. The book won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1998 and was placed on the Victorian Certificate of Education and New South Wales Higher School Certificate English reading lists as a set text used on both final exams. In 2007, a film adaptation starring Eric Bana and Franke Potente was released in Australia.
Since Gaita is recalling events from when he was quite young, Romulus, My Fatheris an episodic memoir with gaps and some information missing. It was also written after Romulus’s death, so some parts of his life story are incomplete.
Romulus Gaita is born in 1922 in the Romanian-speaking part of Yugoslavia. He identifies as Romanian, as do many of the people in his village. When he is still young, Romulus receives a prophecy from a local fortuneteller, who says that he will travel ac
Since Gaita is recalling events from when he was quite young, Romulus, My Fatheris an episodic memoir with gaps and some information missing. It was also written after Romulus’s death, so some parts of his life story are incomplete.
Romulus Gaita is born in 1922 in the Romanian-speaking part of Yugoslavia. He identifies as Romanian, as do many of the people in his village. When he is still young, Romulus receives a prophecy from a local fortuneteller, who says that he will travel ac
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Romulus, My Father
June 23, 2017
It's a complete mystery why Gaita's two Romulus books are so little read. Perhaps if he'd called them #1 and #2, with the hope for people that there would be a #7 and a #34.
I cannot do justice to this book, an elegant but simple, sorrowful but not, self-contained whilst being wide open to the world, recollection of his father. I guess the general unknown of this outside Australia is a spurning of the edge of the world in part. But most problematic is that people only want to read biography of Important People. The Importance can be the way of utter triviality, but it has to be public. Big.
Romulus, however, isn't Important. He is only important. And apparently that doesn't cut it. I'm not going to write about the book, I could not possibly do justice to it, a point on which I have brooded over the past months since reading it. So, to resort to vulgarity, it's a fucking amazing book and anybody who reads it must come out the other end a better person. If enough people read it, at the end the world would be a better world.
Update: 1 February 2017
I cannot do justice to this book, an elegant but simple, sorrowful but not, self-contained whilst being wide open to the world, recollection of his father. I guess the general unknown of this outside Australia is a spurning of the edge of the world in part. But most problematic is that people only want to read biography of Important People. The Importance can be the way of utter triviality, but it has to be public. Big.
Romulus, however, isn't Important. He is only important. And apparently that doesn't cut it. I'm not going to write about the book, I could not possibly do justice to it, a point on which I have brooded over the past months since reading it. So, to resort to vulgarity, it's a fucking amazing book and anybody who reads it must come out the other end a better person. If enough people read it, at the end the world would be a better world.
Update: 1 February 2017
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