The Vivisector: Winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature - Softcover

White, Patrick

 
9780099324614: The Vivisector: Winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 009932461X ISBN 13: 9780099324614
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion.

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Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
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009932461X
ISBN 13 
9780099324614
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624
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