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4 77 y separately published work icon Memoirs of Many in One Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray , Patrick White (editor), ( trans. Unknown with title Dolly Formosa und die Auserwaehlten : Die Memoiren der Alex Xenophon Dimirjan Gray. Herausgegeben von Patrick White ) Düsseldorf : Claassen , 1988 Z426370 1986 single work novel
8 143 y separately published work icon The Twyborn Affair Patrick White , ( trans. Kurt Heinrich Hansen )expression Düsseldorf : Claassen , 1986 Z448841 1979 single work novel (taught in 14 units)

'Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.' (From the publisher's website.)
11 181 y separately published work icon A Fringe of Leaves Patrick White , ( trans. Kurt Heinrich Hansen with title Der Lendenschurz ) Düsseldorf : Claassen , 1982 Z476217 1976 single work novel (taught in 8 units)

"Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class."

Source: Goodreads
10 130 y separately published work icon The Solid Mandala Patrick White , ( trans. Matthias Buttner with title Die ungleichen Brueder ) Düsseldorf : Claassen , 1978 Z479719 1966 single work novel (taught in 5 units)
7 142 y separately published work icon The Vivisector Patrick White , ( trans. Wilhelm Borgers et. al.agent with title Der Maler ) Hamburg : Claassen , 1973 Z480331 1970 single work novel "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."

Source: Penguin Books Australia.
15 156 y separately published work icon The Eye of the Storm Patrick White , ( trans. Matthias Buttner with title Im Auge des Sturms ) Düsseldorf Zurich Paris : Claassen Coron-Verlag Editions Rombaldi , 1973 Z463974 1973 single work novel (taught in 7 units)

"Elizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itself to those around her. From this simple scenario Patrick White unfurls a monumental exploration of the tides of love and hate, comedy and tragedy, impotence and and longing that fester within family relationships."

Source: Penguin Books Australia.
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