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The Human Tree Author: [Australia] Patrick White Translator: Hu Wenzhong/ Li Yao Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
The Human Tree Author: [Australia] Patrick White Translator: Hu Wenzhong/ Li Yao Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
▲Australia's "Genesis" | A poetic scroll rooted in the wilderness
▲A pastoral tragedy in Australia’s cold wonderland
▲A family epic that unfolds slowly amidst floods, fires, wars, betrayals, and death
▲Representative works of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature
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The Man-Tree is the masterpiece and representative work of Australian Nobel Prize winner Patrick White, and is known as the "Genesis of Australia". The novel depicts the life of two generations of the Parker family in detail, showing the living conditions and spiritual outlook of Australian pioneers, and deeply exploring human nature, interpersonal relationships and personal beliefs.
At first, a man named Stan Parker came to a jungle that had never been visited by human beings. He cut down trees and built a shed, reclaimed a piece of land, and brought back a woman named Amy as his wife. They pioneered and started a business, had children, loved each other but were alienated. The Parker family - the stubborn and silent husband Stan, the imaginative wife Amy, the violent and unruly son Ray, the ambitious and vain daughter Selma - slowly unfolded their lives in floods, fires, wars, alienation, betrayal, loneliness, death...
Finally, the man found God in the spit he spit on the ground before dying. And the wasteland he first reclaimed has become a suburb of Sydney. But after all, there are still trees there. A teenager - Stan and Amy's grandson went into the jungle to write a poem about life.
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Hot media reviews:
“It has eternal artistic value and shows the essence of life in every detail.”
——The New York Times Book Review
“A great work that taps into the universal experience of human life.”
——Times
“When great writers meet the myths of human nature, they give us a novel like this.”
——The Guardian
"(White's) greatest novel, a pastoral tragedy set in a grim Australian wonderland."
——The Observer
"This novel possesses ... all the elements that make a novel leave a lasting mark on our memory: unforgettable scenes, incomparable characters, a rich range of emotions, and striking new images ..."
—The Washington Post
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
Hu Wenzhong (1935- ) is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was once the vice president of Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has been engaged in English teaching and research, cross-cultural communication research and Australian literature research for a long time. In 1990, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Sydney, and in 2004 he was awarded an honorary professorial researcher at the University of Melbourne.
Li Yao (1946- ) is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior translator, an honorary doctor of literature from the University of Sydney, an honorary doctor of literature from the University of Western Sydney, and a visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has translated and published 53 monographs on British, American, and Australian literature and history. Among them, his novels The Prodigal Son, The Red Line, and The Gulf of Carpentaria won the Australia-China Council Translation Award. In 2008, he was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Medal" by the Australian government for his achievements in Sino-Australian cultural exchanges, especially in the field of translation. In 2018, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Research Foundation in China.
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