by Patrick White · Luís de Caralt · tapa dura · ISBN 9788421716663
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«El carro de los elegidos» is the novel by Patrick White, published in 1966 by Luis de Caralt in hardcover (544 pages, in Spanish).
In the Australian town of Sarsaparrilla, the novel crosses the lives of four characters from different origins: an Aboriginal artist, a Holocaust survivor, a devout washerwoman, and a childish heiress. Their visions and encounters reveal racism and the aftermath of war in a community that seems far from major conflicts.
Original title: Riders in the Chariot (1961). Translated into Spanish by Carlos Puerto. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.
For those interested in Australian literature and modern twentieth-century classics.
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.
