Discuss the thematic concerns of Patrick
White in ‘The Tree of Man’ Or Evaluated The Tree of Man as a typical
Commonwealth Text. Or Draw a character – sketch of Stan Parker
Patrick
Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), was an
Australian author who is widely regarded as one of the most important
English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he
published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays. White's
fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a
stream of consciousness
technique. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the
only Australian to have been awarded the prize. Critics who have asserted Patrick Victor Martindale (1912-1990)
greatness,
“An unmistakably major writer”,
“Tower over most other living novelists”,
“The hardly of Australia
“Potentiality of greater than any other living
novelist.”
No comments:
Post a Comment