Voss. by. Patrick White, Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) · Rating details · 2, ratings · reviews. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE. Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only on a few occasions, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, /5. · The best novels: No 77 – Voss by Patrick White () A love story set against the disappearance of an explorer in the outback, Voss paved the way for a Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White In , Australian writer Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature." Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer /5().
The complete review's Review. Voss is a remarkable book. White's language here is at its simplest and most direct, his story is brutal and wrenching. Set in the mid-nineteenth century White relates the story of Voss, a German who sets out to cross the Australian continent. The fifth published novel of Patrick White is about a strange, tortured man named Voss who, in , leads an ill-assorted expedition across the Australian desert. The book is based upon the life of the nineteenth-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared while on an expedition into the Australian outback. The poetically writhing words of Patrick White's Voss imbue the novel's inanimate world with a life commonly attributed to humankind alone: darkness strangles, the sun cauterizes, leaves slash at one another, rain sighs, and dawn shrieks with jubilation as red light flows out along the veins of morning.
Patrick White, Voss Patrick White is one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, on a par with his fellow Nobel Laureates William Faulkner, Halldór Laxness and Thomas Mann; and yet, one hundred years after his birth, his name seems temporarily and inexplicably lost in the immense desert spaces to which he introduced a new generation of readers, buried like one of those legions of Herodotus, beneath the glare and flies and red Australian sand. Voss, by Patrick White won the inaugural Miles Franklin Award in These are the opening lines 'There is a man here, miss, asking for your uncle,' said Rose. And stood breathing. 'What man?' asked the young woman, who was engaged upon some embroidery of a difficult nature, at which she was now forced to. Voss () is the fifth published novel by Patrick White. It is based upon the life of the 19th-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared while on an expedition into the Australian outback.
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