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Eye of the Storm Author: [Australia] Patrick White Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Eye of the Storm Author: [Australia] Patrick White Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
▲Representative works of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature
▲Look at the subtleties of human nature under a microscope; explore the long river of memory in the stream of consciousness
▲An old woman lying in bed, her children with their own ulterior motives, a storm of desire and money
▲Introducing a new continent into the literary map with narrative art that combines epic style and psychological description." ——Reasoning for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Contents:
Eye of the Storm is the representative novel of Patrick White, the first Australian Nobel Prize winner in literature, which established his status as a literary giant. The novel is based on Mrs. Hunter's activities from the time she was dying to her burial. Through her inner monologue and free association, it narrates her life of pleasure, debauchery and misfortune.
In a decaying mansion in Sydney, Elizabeth Hunter, who is over 80 years old, resists the coming of death. In front of the sickbed, a pair of children who returned driven by interests, three nurses with different personalities, a clown-like housekeeper, and an upright but cowardly lawyer, in this hypocritical and indifferent family, staged a tragicomedy of intrigue, love and hate. Elizabeth, once beautiful and dissolute, greedily grabbed everything and hurt her family and friends; the approach of death made her find the ultimate state of goodness that she had never found in her life in a half-awake state. Just like what Elizabeth experienced on the island many years ago, the painful storm will cleanse the empty and absurd life and bring a pure and quiet eye of the storm.
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Hot media reviews:
"I was attracted to the novel, perhaps more as a means of introducing a character like myself, made up of contradictory personalities, to an audience that was reluctant to believe it easily."
--Patrick White, The Flaw in the Mirror
"Introduced a new continent into the literary map with his narrative art that combined epic style and psychological description."
——Reasons for the Nobel Prize in Literature
"White's rich and unique language, sometimes majestic, sometimes changeable, always full of satirical pungency, makes every paragraph of this masterpiece worth savoring... It is difficult to describe in words the grandeur, wisdom, and faithful portrayal of human confusion in Eye of the Storm."
—The New York Times
“An Australian King Lear, a high-brow tragicomedy, almost Chekhovian… Eye of the Storm is a masterpiece of intense dramatic tension.”
——The Australian
“Patrick White is the king of the world he created.”
——Time Magazine
About the Author
Patrick White (1912-1990)
Patrick White
Australian novelist and playwright, one of the most important English-language writers of the 20th century, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 "for his narrative art, which by its blend of epic style and psychological description introduced a new continent onto the literary map".
White was born in London, England, and returned to Sydney, Australia with his parents when he was less than one year old. He suffered from asthma since childhood and lived alone. White spent his childhood on a farm in Australia. In 1932, he entered King's College, Cambridge University to study French and German literature. During his studies, he published his first collection of poems, The Peasant and Other Poems.
White was a prolific writer throughout his life, publishing 12 novels including The Man-Tree (1955), Explorer Voss (1957), The Charioteers (1961), Eye of the Storm (1973), and Skirt of Leaves (1976), as well as three collections of short stories, eight plays, poems, autobiographies, and unpublished works. White's works are delicate and poetic, and he is good at switching freely between stream of consciousness and narrative, with a very high artistic level. White refused numerous literary awards throughout his life and rarely accepted media interviews. He died of illness in his Sydney apartment in 1990.
About the Translator
Zhu Jiongqiang (1933- ) is a professor at Zhejiang University, a senior translator, a director of the China Australia Research Association, and a member of the China Writers Association. He has written four works, including Hardy: A Trans-Century Literary Giant. He has translated 18 works, including Eye of the Storm, Selected Short Stories by Lawrence, and Biographies of Famous British and American Poets.
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