Patrick White's Fiction: The Paradox of Fortunate Failure

by Carolyn Bliss

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Patrick White's Fiction: The Paradox of Fortunate Failure by Carolyn Jane Bliss Hardcover in dustjacket - 255 pages Published 1986 by Macmillan This study examines the 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 failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence.

• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Year: 1986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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