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White, Patrick - The Vivisector
A novel
London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, first edition
Bound. Orange cloth. Title in gold on the spine. With dust jacket
14 x 20,5 x 4 cm.
642 Pages
VERY GOOD
The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White. First published in 1970, 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.
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister’s deformity, a grocer’s moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi.
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.
It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.
Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in England in 1912, when his parents were in Europe for two years; at six months he was taken back to Australia, where his father owned a sheep station. When he was thirteen, he went to school in England, to Cheltenham, “where it was understood, the climate would be temperate and a colonial acceptable.”
Neither proved true, and after four rather miserable years there he went to Kking’s College, Cambridge, where he specialized in languages. After leaving the university he settled in London, determined to become a writer.
His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939 and his second, The Living and the Dead, in 1941.
During the war he was an RAF intelligence officer in the Middle East and Greece. After the war he returned to Australia.
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A novel
London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, first edition
Bound. Orange cloth. Title in gold on the spine. With dust jacket
14 x 20,5 x 4 cm.
642 Pages
VERY GOOD
The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White. First published in 1970, 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.
Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister’s deformity, a grocer’s moonlight indiscretion and the passionate illusions of his mistress, Hero Pavloussi.
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.
It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.
Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in England in 1912, when his parents were in Europe for two years; at six months he was taken back to Australia, where his father owned a sheep station. When he was thirteen, he went to school in England, to Cheltenham, “where it was understood, the climate would be temperate and a colonial acceptable.”
Neither proved true, and after four rather miserable years there he went to Kking’s College, Cambridge, where he specialized in languages. After leaving the university he settled in London, determined to become a writer.
His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939 and his second, The Living and the Dead, in 1941.
During the war he was an RAF intelligence officer in the Middle East and Greece. After the war he returned to Australia.
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