by Patrick White · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781742756882
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«Voss» is a historical fiction novel written by Patrick White, published by Random House Australia in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Australia, 1840s. Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer, ventures into the interior of the continent while maintaining an obsessive, almost secret relationship with Laura, a young woman from Sydney. Amid hardships, mutiny and betrayal, the bond between them intensifies; the novel explores ambition, love, loss and Australian identity.
The novel was originally published in 1957; this 2012 paperback edition is published under the Vintage White imprint of Random House Australia.
For readers interested in historical fiction and the classics of Australian literature.
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.
