Writers on Writers Thomas Keneally on Patrick White's Voss

Thomas Keneally has written that Patrick White was “a genius and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.” White, who died in 1990, is the only Australian to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Voss, the story of a journey to the Australian interior, a journey both physical and spiritual, is regarded as his masterpiece. White himself said of the books that mattered to him that one seems “to go on living in them for ever, possibly because they give glimpses of a heartbreaking perfection one will never achieve.” In Voss, White came closest to this ideal of perfection. Join Thomas Keneally to discuss an unjustly neglected classic.

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