“Your country is of great subtlety’, a quote laced with irony: both an exaltation of the hidden beauty of the continent, and a metaphor for how the great nothingness of the vast outback swallows one up with hidden threats one would not expect. So describes just one aspect of the magnum opus of Australia’s only laureate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White.
Nice review. I like the descriptiveness of the writing but yeh a little long winded in that era of writing.
Wrote my own Voss story... heh
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