Letters
著者
書誌事項
Letters
University of Chicago Press, c1994. 1996
- タイトル別名
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Patrick White
- 統一タイトル
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Correspondence
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"Letters are the devil, and I always hope that any I have written have been destroyed." --Patrick WhitePatrick White spent his whole life writing letters. He wanted them all burnt, but thousands survive to reveal him as one of the greatest letter-writers of his time. "Patrick White: Letters" is an unexpected and final volume of prose by Australia's most acclaimed novelist. Only a few scraps of White's letters have been published before.
From the aftermath of the First World War until his death in 1990, letters poured from White's pen: they are shrewd, funny, dramatic, pigheaded, camp, and above all, hauntingly beautiful. He wrote novels to sway a hostile world, but letters were for friends.
The culmination of ten years' work and reflection by David Marr, author of the well-received biography "Patrick White: A Life," the volume tells the story of White's life in his own words. These are the letters of a great writer, a profound critic, a gossip with the sharpest eyes and tongue, a man who loved and hated ferociously, a keen cook, an angry patriot, and a believer never free of doubt.
Patrick White (1912-1990), Australian novelist and playwright, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. His many novels include "Voss," "The Twyborn Affair," and Riders "in the Chariot."
David Marr grew up in Sydney and abandoned the law to become a writer, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the author of "Patrick White: A Life" and "Barwick." He is now presenter of Australian Broadcasting Company-Radio National's "Arts Today."
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