Patrick White (1) (1912–1990)
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Over de Auteur
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, toon meer 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) toon minder
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Gerelateerde werken
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- White, Patrick
- Officiële naam
- White, Patrick Victor Martindale
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- GRAY, Alex Xenophon Demirjan
WHITE, Patrick Victor Martindale
WHITE, Patrick - Geboortedatum
- 1912-05-28
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1990-09-30
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
UK - Geboorteplaats
- Londen, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Plaats van overlijden
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australië
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia - Opleiding
- Cheltenham College
University of Cambridge (King's College ∙ BA ∙ 1935)
Tudor House School - Beroepen
- essayist
novelist
playwright
poet
short story writer
stockman - Relaties
- Lascaris, Manoly (life partner)
- Organisaties
- Patrick White Award (established)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1973)
Australian of the Year Award (1973) - Ontwarringsbericht
- VIAF:41847966
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Discussies
Message Board in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (april 2013)
The Twyborn Affair - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (december 2012)
The Eye of the Storm - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (november 2012)
Riders in the Chariot in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (augustus 2012)
The Vivisector in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (juni 2012)
Voss - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (juni 2012)
The Solid Mandala in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (mei 2012)
Riders in the Chariot in Book talk (mei 2012)
The Tree of Man - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (april 2012)
The Aunt's Story - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (april 2012)
A Fringe of Leaves - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (maart 2012)
The Living and the Dead - discussion in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (februari 2012)
The Novels in Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge (januari 2012)
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Five star books (2)
Booker Prize (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Women's Stories (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Prijzen
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White takes quite some time to outline their background and life story and delves deep into their psyche, which is quite battered for each of them: Mary has always been spit out by her parents as 'too ordinary', Mordecai survived the Holocaust, Alf was raped by a pastor and Ruth had to face an abusive husband. They see themselves as unworthy sinners, suffering to a greater or lesser extent from an inferiority syndrome. But White sheds quite a different light on them.
Through secondary characters and all kinds of developments, the novel takes on a truly Dickensian allure (sometimes just as elaborate), but White adds his own accents: his sarcasm and satire jump off the pages, and regularly the magical, the spiritual and even the mystical seem to take over the narrative. He almost constantly misleads us, as in this passage, where Himmelfarb walks back to his city which has just been bombed, after a traumatic experience with the Nazis: “The winter evening was drawing in as he approached the darker masses of the town, which had already begun to receive its nightly visitation. The knots and loops, the little, exquisite puffs of white hung on the deepening distances of the sky, all the way to its orange rim. The riot of fireworks was on. Ordinarily solid, black buildings were shown to have other, more transcendental qualities, in that they would open up, disclosing fountains of hidden fire. Much was inverted, that hitherto had been accepted as sound and immutable. Two silver fish were flaming downward, out of their cobalt sea, into the land.” So here, a bombing has been transformed by White into a poetic, pastoral scene.
And the Chariot? Well, it is briefly touched upon in each part, in such a way that you can sense it’s something important, crucial to the story. White consciously leaves it to the reader to discover and fill in the image and its meaning, but it’s another original find of his, the combination of an antique (The Chariot of Apollo) and a biblical (Ezekiel) image. White seems to suggest, no, clearly indicates that his four protagonists are the Riders of the Chariot, because they see more than ordinary people, they are Enlightened (shades of light, and especially that of white, play a prominent role in White's descriptions) , half or whole saints themselves, who transcend the banal, and are clearly on the right side, representing the pinnacle of humanity. The bourgeois, conventional, materialistic world is the opponent force, anti-human and downright evil. So, ultimately, this novel is a variation on the theme of the battle between good and evil, but in a very original form.
To the reader of today this novel may be quite demanding. Not only because of the sometimes very strange (mythical) passages, and because of the story structure that seems a bit too constructed. At times I found White laid it too thick how saintlike his 4 Riders of the Chariot are (especially Mrs Godbold). But the extraordinary style, the humor, and the spiritual imagery make this into an impressive novel.… (meer)