DUGGAN'S TRAVELS
~,OR a long time Maurice Duggan played around with words without quite knowing what to do with them. But it was as well he did, for when he finally found he had something to say the words were there to say it, in a: manner which convinced me, at least, that he was writing better prose than anyone else in New Zealand, Some of his best writing is in his travel diary, and he or a talks officer has now had the excellent notion of turning it into a radio series, and giving it a wider audience than it could get from the restricted circulation of Landfall, where it first appeared. Mr. Duggan has a precise but vigorous and emphatic voice, heightened here to match the heightening of the prose. I'm still a little unhappy about how this is done. To read it in a conversational manner would have been misleading, but his rhythm seems to be determined less by the words than by a conception of how the whole should sound, and some of the meaning is thereby obscured. Nevertheless, from the tumble of bright words his landscape emerges, sharp but almost unreal, like a stage bathed in green or violet light.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 10
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205DUGGAN'S TRAVELS New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 10
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