Patrick White (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Patrick White first attempted to achieve literary success as a playwright in London in the 1930’s. His work was largely rejected, partly, he implied in his autobiographical memoir, Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait (1981), because of lack of connections in the theatrical world (although he did not deny that his talent was immature at that time). In particular, he noted that an effort to dramatize The Aspern Papers (1888), Henry James’s famous novella based on an...

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