The Vivisector was the first novel by Patrick White which I really enjoyed, having failed to do so, with Voss and The Tree of Man. This was in the early 70s. However, nearly 50 years later I find the novel quite distasteful, though full of White's characteristic poetic prose. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of /5(38). About The Vivisector. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister’s deformity, a grocer’s moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his www.doorway.ru:
I read Voss (), White's classic, about a 19th century German explorer who leads a doomed expedition into the outback; The Vivisector (), a long fictional biography of a merciless and egomaniacal painter patterned on Sidney Nolan, a major Australian artist in White's day, and more loosely, if you like, on Francis Bacon; and The. About The Vivisector. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for. Patrick White was born in England in 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 He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war.
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. I read Voss (), White’s classic, about a 19th century German explorer who leads a doomed expedition into the outback; The Vivisector (), a long fictional biography of a merciless and egomaniacal painter patterned on Sidney Nolan, a major Australian artist in White’s day, and more loosely, if you like, on Francis Bacon; and The Twyborn Affair (), one of his strangest and most psychologically daunting works, which traces the life and fate of a Trinity of characters – two. The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White. First published in , it details the lifelong creative journey of fictional artist/painter Hurtle Duffield. Named for its sometimes cruel analysis of Duffield and the major figures in his life, the book explores universal themes like the suffering of the artist, the need for truth and the meaning of existence.
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