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A difficult writer

Patrick White’s address to the ineffable
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September 2025, no. 479

On Patrick White’s Dilemmas: A personal essay by Vrasidas Karalis

Brandl & Schlesinger, $26.99, 224 pp

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A difficult writer

Patrick White’s address to the ineffable
by
September 2025, no. 479

‘Lonely Country’ is the term Arnhem landers use for empty or uncared-for places. Sometimes the custodians have died. In other cases, the land is simply too difficult to get to or inhabit. Whatever the reason, Lonely Country brings sadness. There is no one to burn the bush or manage it; no one to call out to the spirits of the old people who remain on their Country, isolated from the living.

On Patrick White’s Dilemmas: A personal essay

On Patrick White’s Dilemmas: A personal essay

by Vrasidas Karalis

Brandl & Schlesinger, $26.99, 224 pp

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