Peter Carey

One of the things I found most interesting about Peter Carey's works was his lack of quotation marks. For me it was an interesting way of telling the story, as if I was in a conversation with him. Personally, I found it to be a very postmodern approach to storytelling. The two stories I liked the most were 'Crabs' and 'Conversations with Unicorns'.

I found it very strange in 'Crabs' when the title character descends into madness and becomes a car. This was one of the stories where the quotation marks really helped me to understand the story as it was being told as if I was there.

'Conversations with Unicorns' was very, very strange to me, as everyone knows that Unicorns do not exist. It completely shattered my grasp on what was real. The Unicorn's cryptic responses were most intriguing to me as I attempted to find some shard of reality in them.

All in all, while these short stories put me in a rage that I had not experienced since Ern Malley, they were intriguing nonetheless. The more I read, the more I wanted to find out its meaning, what it was on about, and what the author was thinking when he wrote it.