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On Patrick White's Dilemmas

On Patrick White's Dilemmas

A Personal Essay

by Vrasidas Karalis
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2025

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'A brilliantly written, autobiographically structured meditation on Australia’s pre-eminent novelist Patrick White.

Karalis’ small volume reflects eloquently on a lifetime of reading, writing, and translating. On Patrick White’s Dilemmas casts a sceptical eye on the grandiosity and hysteria of literary critics and critical theorists.

It explores the highs and lows of the twentieth-century novel in a dazzling manner while dissecting White’s singularity: his startling use of language, defiance of fad and ideology, mastery of ambiguity, irony and mystery, quotidian drollness, and complex mythopoetic storytelling.

Karalis’ book is remarkable – the most important examination of White’s divine comedy of disturbing human quandaries that has appeared to date.' – Professor Peter Murphy, La Trobe University

ISBN:
9780645235074
9780645235074
Category:
Autobiography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2025
Publisher:
Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
190x124mm
Vrasidas Karalis

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Chair of Sir Nicholas Laurantos in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. He has translated Patrick White’s Voss and The Vivisector, as well as Michael Dransfield’s poems into Greek.

His main publications in English include, A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum 2012), Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2017), The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos (Berhghan Press, 2021), Theo Angelopoulos: Film maker and Philosopher (Palgrave, 2023), Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2007), The Demons of Athens (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2013), Reflections on Presence (re.Press, 2016) and The Glebe Point Road Blues (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2021). He has also edited volumes on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis.

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