Published: 2025
No of Pages: 224
RRP: 26.99
Dimensions: 124x190 mm
ISBN Print: 978-0-6452350-7-4
On Patrick White’s Dilemmas
“A brilliantly written, autobiographically structured meditation on Australia’s pre-eminent novelist, Patrick White. Karalis reflects eloquently on a lifetime of reading, writing and translating. On Patrick White’s Dilemmas casts a sceptical eye on the grandiosity and hysteria of literary critics and critical theorists. It explores the highs and lows of the twentieth-century novel dazzlingly while dissecting White’s singularity: his startling use of language, defiance of fad and ideology, mastery of ambiguity, irony and mystery, quotidian drollness, and complex mythopoetic storytelling. Karalis’s book is remarkable – the most important examination of White’s divine comedy of disturbing human quandaries that has appeared to date.”
Professor Peter Murphy, La Trobe University
About the Author
Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Byzantine historiography, Greek political life, Greek Cinema, European Cinema, the director Sergei Eisenstein and contemporary political philosophy. He has also worked extensively as a translator (novels by Patrick White) and the theory of transcultural translation. He has edited volumes on modern European political philosophy, especially on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis. His recent publications include A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum/Bloomsbury 2013) and Greek Cinema from Cacoyannis to the Present (forthcoming by I.B. Tauris). He has also published Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris (2007) which explores diasporic identity through the life of Patrick White’s partner.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-and-events/news/2020/11/02/i-dont-like-zobra.html
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