Patrick White: Flaws in the Glass

Cover: 9780099752318 | Flaws in the Glass | Patrick White | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1998

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In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find but 'unable to produce him' he prefers to remain private or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise the one he sees reflected in the glass.

Über den Autor

PATRICK WHITE was born in London in 1912 to Australian parents, returning to Australia at six months of age. At Cambridge University he studied languages and literature. In 1939 he published his first novel, Happy Valley, but his main ambition was to write for the stage. Bread and Butter Women and The School for Friends were produced in Sydney in 1935. In 1941 he wrote the novel The Living and the Dead. During the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer for the RAF in the Middle East and Greece. He returned to Australia in 1948. The Ham Funeral was written in London in 1947 and he completed the novel The Aunt's Story on the sea voyage to Australia. White occasionally made public statements on national issues such as the war in Vietnam, environmental matters and Aboriginal affairs. In 1976 he withdrew from the Order of Australia in protest against some of the government's policies. He contributed generously to Aboriginal schools, donated works by Australian painters to the Art Gallery of NSW and established the Patrick White Literary Award. He produced 13 novels, eight plays and numerous essays, poems, short stories and articles. He was awarded the Australian Literacy Society Gold Medal, the Miles Franklin Award and, in 1973, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the only Australian ever to have won this prize. He described his writing as a 'struggle to create completely fresh forms out of the rocks and sticks of words.'

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780099752318
ISBN-10:	009975231X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	White, Patrick
Hersteller:	Vintage Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick White
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.1998
Gewicht:	0,341 kg