Patrick White's Fiction: The Paradox of Fortunate Failure

by Carolyn Jane Bliss

This study examines all eleven novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a necessary, redemptive, or facilitating failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Evolution of this theme is traced through forty years of White's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333388690
• ISBN13: 9780333388693
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"