Australian feminist writer influenced by early exposure to French avant-garde (Mallarme, Genet, Duras, Cixous, Barthes, Wittig.). Barthes’ catchcry that to write is an intransitive verb still resonates. Writing is that connective tissue whereby we catch otherness, whereby we relay our ardour.
McCulloch, A. (2006) The Casting of Shadows and the Finding of Form. Book review: Marion Campbell, Shadow Thief (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006), Southerly: a review of Australian literature, Vol 66, No 2, pp. 129-133
Shadow Thief ‘…tremendously accomplished…at times compelling, even scintillating. Although many of the topics are common to Australian women’s novels—mothers and relationships and sex, often gay—it is about as far as it can get from chick lit…Campbell is experimental and adventurous with words and launches often into unexpected riffs, her writing gathering steam as she moves further and further into her subjects’ moody and intense interior worlds.’
