The Vivisector
Author: White, Patrick
ISBN: 9780143791010
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 608
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 42mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the Australian Nobel Laureate.
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, 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.
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.
ISBN: 9780143791010
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 608
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 42mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the Australian Nobel Laureate.
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, 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.
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.
