NicolemotspourmotsJan 6
#mardiconseil mon billet est un peu long mais comment parler d'un tel chef d'œuvre sinon ? En fait il est beaucoup trop court pour rendre hommage à ce texte d'un Nobel oublié (1973), publié en 1955 mais à ranger dans la catégorie des intemporels sur lesquels les modes ou les tendances n'ont aucune prise. J'en parle comme je peux, j'espère que vous vous ferez le cadeau de lire ce texte sublime 🙂
#mastolivre #patrickwhite #chroniquelitteraire #auventdesiles
https://www.motspourmots.fr/2025/12/l-arbre-de-l-homme-patrick-white.html
L'arbre de l'homme - Patrick White

Merci. C'est le premier mot qui me vient à l'esprit en refermant ce livre gigantesque à tous points de vue. Nous avons passé une dizaine de jours ensemble, sa densité appelle de la concentration, le plaisir en est décuplé. Ce roman a soixante-dix ans...

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NicolemotspourmotsDec 26
#vendredilecture Ce "petit" bijou écrit par le seul lauréat océanien du Nobel de litterature date de 1955 et n'avait encore jamais été traduit en français. C'est enfin fait et bien fait grâce à l'éditeur Au vent des îles et au traducteur David Fauquemberg. Et moi je me régale de cette langue inventive, vivante, de ce style impeccable mais jamais sage, de cette puissance dans l'évocation de l'immatériel et de l'impermanence. C'est sublime, je savoure.
#mastolivre #patrickwhite
OanaAug 31, 2025

Had to share this passage: "wearing all her rings, as ladies do at a shipwreck or a fire"..

#patrickwhite voss

OanaAug 24, 2025
Reading #patrickwhite #voss at the #deichman lib in Oslo.
Show threadLuke: grue fodderApr 18, 2025
2025 book twenty-three: Patrick White: The Solid Mandala ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstagram #bookstodon #books #paperback #2025books #books2025 #patrickwhite #thesolidmandala
OanaDec 18, 2024

Finished the book that contained our cat's death as well. It ended with another 5 deaths. Expected since it covered a life..

Made me think about the deaths I attended: great grandma of my cousins, grandpa from my father side, my mother, my uncle in Germany, pets..

And the deaths I did not attend because I was not in the country.. 3 grandparents and an uncle. I regret not being there; like those people's life stories din not have a proper ending.

#patrickwhite

OanaNov 12, 2024

More of that: book and cat. Finished today. #thesolidmandala #patrickwhite

I enjoyed it more this time. Then I had a discussion with my husband about who died and of what. What exactly happened..

OanaNov 10, 2024

#patrickwhite, the solid mandala. Reading last night while waiting for one or another of the kids to go to bed.

Went on a trip with the scouts last weekend and grabbed a book from the bookshelves. I wanted the tree of man, but accidentally got this. And now I'm gonna finish it. 2/3 done.

Show threadCaterine VaubanAug 15, 2024

#20books № 9:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1973/white/biographical/

"[Patrick White] was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize." -- Wikipedia

#book #books #novels #PatrickWhite #NobelPrize #AustralianAuthors #AustralianAuthor #literature #procrastination #SecondHand

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 was awarded to Patrick White "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"

NobelPrize.org
OanaAug 11, 2024

I finished the #book just in time. I'm coming down with a cold. Hope not a Covid.

As always I'm a bit sad that the good entertainment is over. Book is back in the shelf.

But it's great that we have a bunch of other #patrickwhite books so I can allow myself to be reading just Patrick White until I get enough.