Patrick White (1) (1912–1990)
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Sull'Autore
Patrick White was born on May 28, 1912 in Knightsbridge, London, to Australian parents. He studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force. His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939. His other works include The Tree of Man, mostra altro Voss, Riders in the Chariot, The Solid Mandala, The Twyborn Affair, and The Hanging Garden. He also wrote several plays including The Season at Sarsaparilla, Night on Bald Mountain, and Signal Driver. They never met with the success his fiction had and have not been produced outside Australia. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. He died on September 30, 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Patrick White
Opere correlate
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- White, Patrick
- Nome legale
- White, Patrick Victor Martindale
- Altri nomi
- GRAY, Alex Xenophon Demirjan
WHITE, Patrick Victor Martindale
WHITE, Patrick - Data di nascita
- 1912-05-28
- Data di morte
- 1990-09-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Luogo di morte
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australië
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Istruzione
- Cheltenham College
University of Cambridge (King's College ∙ BA ∙ 1935)
Tudor House School - Attività lavorative
- essayist
novelist
playwright
poet
short story writer
stockman - Relazioni
- Lascaris, Manoly (life partner)
- Organizzazioni
- Patrick White Award (established)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1973)
Australian of the Year Award (1973) - Nota di disambiguazione
- VIAF:41847966
Utenti
Discussioni
Message Board in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Aprile 2013)
The Twyborn Affair - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Dicembre 2012)
The Eye of the Storm - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Novembre 2012)
Riders in the Chariot in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Agosto 2012)
The Vivisector in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Giugno 2012)
Voss - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Giugno 2012)
The Solid Mandala in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Mag 2012)
Riders in the Chariot in Book talk (Mag 2012)
The Tree of Man - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Aprile 2012)
The Aunt's Story - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Aprile 2012)
A Fringe of Leaves - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Marzo 2012)
The Living and the Dead - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Febbraio 2012)
The Novels in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (Gennaio 2012)
Recensioni
Liste
Booker Prize (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Women's Stories (1)
Nifty Fifties (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 42
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 6,995
- Popolarità
- #3,498
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 163
- ISBN
- 350
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 28
White was around 27 when he started the novel, and he spent the first two years of WWII working on the project, zipping between London (where he was struggling to find success) and New York (where he was critically acclaimed early on, and where he was closer to the man he had fallen in love with during this youthful period). Ultimately, surely to his surprise, White would end up - after the war - back in Australia, and in a relationship with a man very different to those he had met thus far. Perhaps then it seems fair to say that this novel is a different path to those with which White would have his great successes. I don't think it entirely works, but I think it may be a necessary step in his growth.
Funnily enough, this is less successful than his first - Happy Valley - even though that felt like a student writer aping his idols. However that may not be surprising. There, White could emulate much of what made his idols great. Here, he is still clearly inspired by Eliot and Joyce and others, but he is trying to find his own voice. It is more of an ambitious project in a sense, and that is the sense in which it fails. London never fully comes into view; White feels at something of a remove from most of his characters; and even his closest stand-in - the sensitive and clearly homosexual Elyot - is hazy, in no small part because White isn't able to confirm or expand upon the character's sexuality at all, even as he fails in his numerous heterosexual relationships. It all feels rather opaque, and not entirely deliberately. As critics have remarked frequently, it's a joy that his next novel was The Aunt's Story, beginning a run of masterpieces that would lead to White being named the first (and thus far, only) Australian Nobel Laureate for Literature.
So, in conclusion: this is a bit of an oddball member of the White canon, but an interesting portrait into his young literary mindset, if nothing else.… (altro)