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Voss

by Patrick White
language: spanish
Publisher: IMPEDIMENTA, October of 2018 ‧
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Nunca nadie se ha adentrado en el interior de Australia; según dicen, no es más que un páramo lleno de bestias y tribus sanguinarias. Pero todo cambia cuando Voss, un explorador alemán (inspirado en Ludwig Leichhardt, un naturalista prusiano que realizó varias incursiones por esa zona a mediados del XIX), llega a la colonia con la intención de llevar a cabo una expedición histórica: atravesar el desconocido y brutal desierto australiano. Cuenta para ello con un mecenas, el señor Bonner, que, además de proporcionarle víveres y un grupo de compañeros para su viaje, le presenta a su sobrina, Laura Trevelyan, con quien Voss establece una intensa relación que trasciende el amor para internarse en la obsesión metafísica. Su vínculo tendrá que resistir un larguísimo periodo de separación, en el que Voss se enfrenta a la desolación y al aislamiento mientras ella espera su regreso sometida a una vida que siempre detestó y que ahora le pesa más que nunca. Una apasionante historia de amor y aventuras que revela el extraordinario virtuosismo de Patrick White, Premio Nobel de Literatura. Una novela excepcional que constituye todo un homenaje a la fuerza de la voluntad humana.

Voss

by Patrick White

Property Description
ISBN: 9788417115913
Publisher: IMPEDIMENTA
Release Date: October of 2018
Language: Spanish
Dimensions: 150 x 230 x 23 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 576
Format: Book
Categories: Books in Spanish > Fiction > Romance
EAN: 9788417115913

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Patrick White

Nobel Prize in Literature 1973

Australian writer Patrick Victor Martindale White was born on May 28, 1912, in London. Coming from a family of Australian cattle ranchers, he moved with his parents to Sydney just six months after his birth.
A sickly child, suffering from asthma attacks, Patrick was sent to a school far from the city. His illness kept him away from the exhausting company of other children, so he took refuge in books, especially poetry and theater. At the age of thirteen, he was sent to England to attend a school in Cheltenham, where he remained as a boarder until, in 1918, his parents decided to take him on a trip through Scandinavia. He brought back a great appreciation for authors such as Ibsen and Strindberg.
In 1930 he returned to Australia, where he worked for two years as a farmhand, writing in his spare time. At the end of that period he returned to England, enrolling at King's College, Cambridge University, as a student of French and German Literature. Obtaining his degree in 1935, he was helped by his father to establish himself in London as an aspiring writer.
In 1939, after several unsuccessful attempts, he managed to publish his first novel. Happy ValleyIn 1940, while writing The Living and the Dead (1941), Patrick White was recruited by the Royal Air Force, which he served with the rank of Secret Service officer, assigned to missions in the Middle East and Greece. During this period he met Manoly Lascaris, a Greek citizen with whom he returned to Australia and began living in a stable relationship.
In 1955 it emerged The Tree of Man, a work that tells the story of Stan Parker, a young farmer who founds a dynasty on a farm that ends up being absorbed by the city. The year 1957 marked the achievement of international success with the publication of Voss, a highly symbolic novel based on true events, recounted the proverbial desert crossing undertaken by Johann Voss, an eccentric and Nietzschean German. The emergence of works such The Solid Mandala (1966) and The Twyborn case (1979) confirmed White's special talent for understanding the human soul.
In the 1970s, Patrick White became a major activist for Aboriginal rights, environmental protection, and tolerance towards homosexuality.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.
She died in Sydney on September 30, 1990, after a prolonged illness.

Patrick White. In Infopédia. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2011.

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