Patrick White

Voss

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848.

Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 134mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781841593470
• ISBN-10: 1841593478
• Artikelnr.: 36663471

Autorenporträt

Patrick White is a rare and colossal talent of world stature, and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize. Thomas Keneally, who owed him no favours, justly said: `On his day, White is better than Faulkner.¿ White is the recipient of the only fan letter Salman Rushdie admits to having written to another author. He towers over the Australian literary landscape as does Goethe over German literature: lonely, vast, unique. He is not particularly difficult or tricksy, like his peers Nabokov or Beckett. His fiction is rooted in, and nourished by, the epic dramas of the great nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century authors like Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence. He is both exciting and moving, understands women as few male novelists do, and addresses universal themes in a prose that is entirely and compellingly his own.

Rezensionen

The scenery is wonderfully described by the author... There is an interesting spiritual symmetry between the decline in fate of Voss and the circumstances in which Laura finds herself Nudge