by Patrick White · Ediciones Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475301785
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«El carro de los elegidos» is the novel by Australian writer Patrick White, published by Ediciones Orbis in hardcover (463 pages, in Spanish).
In «El carro de los elegidos», four very different characters (an Aboriginal artist, a Holocaust survivor, a laundress with a mystical spirit, and a naive heiress) live together in an Australian suburb. Their visionary experiences confront them with the pettiness of their surroundings and raise the question of how to transcend the human condition.
Originally published as Riders in the Chariot, the novel was recognized with the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Patrick White received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is recommended for readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century classics, with a special interest in Australian narrative.
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.
