Hurtle Duffield is born into a poor Australian family. I think it's White's great autobiography to be honest." Plot summary Other literary critics have interpreted the novel as being largely autobiographical, with Australian literary critic Geordie Williamson noting that "The Vivisector is a great Australian novel. While the novel was dedicated to painter Sidney Nolan, White denied any connection between Hurtle Duffield, the novel's central character, and Nolan or any other painter. The longest of White's novels, The Vivisector was written in 1968. Named for its sometimes cruel analysis of Duffield and the major figures in his life, the book explores universal themes like the suffering of the artist, the need for truth and the meaning of existence. First published in 1970, it details the lifelong creative journey of fictional artist/painter Hurtle Duffield. Upon his death, The Times wrote, “Patrick White did more than any other writer to put Australian literature on the international map.… His tormented oeuvre is that of a great and essentially modern writer.The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White. 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. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art.
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. White’s scope is vast and his invention endless” (The Observer). $300.00 Item Number: 115811įirst edition of this work by “one of the great magicians of fiction.
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