Voss descrive un viaggio epico, sia fisico che spirituale. L'eroe eponimo, Johann Voss, è basato su Ludwig Leichhardt, l'esploratore e naturalista tedesco del diciannovesimo secolo che aveva già condotto diverse spedizioni importanti nell'outback australiano prima di tentare un ambizioso tentativo di attraversare l'intero continente da est a ovest nel 1848. Non fece mai ritorno. White reimmagina la sua storia con intensità visionaria. L'ultimo viaggio di Voss attraverso il deserto e le pianure inzuppate d'acqua dell'Australia centrale è una vera e propria "avventura nell'entroterra". Ma Voss è anche una storia d'amore, perché l'esploratore è diventato inestricabilmente legato a Laura Trevellyn, la cui vita interiore, come la sua, è in contrasto con il mondo. In un linguaggio poetico e passionale, ma allo stesso tempo fondato su osservazioni sociali astute, spesso comiche, e ritratti naturalistici di un'ampia varietà di personaggi: contadini, detenuti, aborigeni, la classe media coloniale e i loro servi.
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Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote several unpublished novels, then served in the RAF during the war. He returned to Australia after the war.
He became the most considerable figure in modern Australian literature, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The great poet of Australian landscape, he turned its vast empty spaces into great mythic landscapes of the soul. His position as a man of letters was controversial, provoked by his acerbic, unpredictable public statements and his belief that it is eccentric individuals who offer the only hope of salvation. He died in September 1990.
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Condizione: New. 2012. Hardcover. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848. He never returned. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 584. . . . . . Codice articolo V9781841593470
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Hardback. Condizione: New. Voss describes an epic journey, both physical and spiritual. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848. He never returned.White re-imagines his story with visionary intensity. Voss's last journey across the desert and the waterlogged plains of central Australia is a true 'venture to the interior'. But Voss is also a love story, for the explorer has become inextricably bound up with Laura Trevellyn, whose inner life, like his own, is at odds with the world. In language poetic and passionate, yet at the same time grounded by shrewd, often comic, social observations and naturalistic portrayals of a wide variety of characters - farmers, convicts, aborigines, the colonial middle class and their servants. Codice articolo LU-9781841593470
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