by Patrick White · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140185829
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«The Cockatoos: Shorter Novels and Stories» is the collection of short novels and stories by Australian Patrick White, in Penguin Classics paperback.
It brings together six narrative pieces: «A Woman's Hand», «The Full Belly», «The Night the Prowler», «Five-Twenty», «Sicilian Vespers» and «The Cockatoos». In them, White examines what lies hidden behind the surface of everyday life, with a style combining realistic observation and symbolism and a distinctly Australian setting.
Work originally published in 1974; this English edition has 288 pages and belongs to the Penguin Twentieth Century Classics series. Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.
For readers of short stories and novellas, and for those interested in twentieth-century Australian fiction.
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.
