English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1721 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Patrick White and Australian Writing
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The idea
Patrick White, an Australian novelist and playwright who died in nineteen ninety, won the Nobel Prize in nineteen seventy-three, the only Australian to do so. His Voss, of nineteen fifty-seven, based on the lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, follows an expedition into the outback.
In practice
An explorer in the desert.
Where people slip
White challenged Australian realism.
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