by Patrick White · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140029758
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«The Solid Mandala» is the novel by Patrick White, published by Penguin in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The novel follows twins Arthur and Waldo Brown throughout their shared life. Waldo, an intellectual who observes without understanding, trusts in knowledge; Arthur, thought simple, understands through direct experience. White reflects on identity, spirituality and the search for wholeness in a fragmented world.
A work of Australian literary fiction originally published in 1966; this Penguin Books edition dates from 1983.
For readers of literary fiction interested in twentieth-century Australian narrative and novels of psychological exploration.
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work that challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to have been awarded it.
