Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the countrys most politically engaged writers. These terms - recognition, commercial success, political engagement - suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkass fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique traces these contradictions against Tsiolkass acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.
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