· This time I’m revisiting The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White, one of the first Australian novels I came across (when I hadn’t yet migrated to this country). Published in , a quarter of a century before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it’s a novel that retains a capacity to startle www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. the aunt's story rejects any holistic understanding, if one comes at it searching for one the book will fall apart. theodora is searching, and falls apart, but it is in the falling apart that she reaches a sort of understanding. everything is fragments, there are innumerable fragments of truth that do not synthesise into a whole. often time they contradict each other, but they are still true. in many ways that is how you /5. · The Aunts Story, by Patrick White, read by Deirdre Rubenstein, ABC Audio, , source Kingston Library; The Aunt’s Story, by Patrick White, Penguin Books, , ISBN , personal copy; Patrick White, a life, by David Marr, Random House Australia, , ISBN, personal copy, purchased second-hand from Diversity Books $25Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
The Aunt's Story by Patrick White was published in After the death of her domineering mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman travels to France, and then to America, where she experiences. The Aunt's Story. From Australia's first Nobel Prize-winning author. With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But creating other people's lives. The Aunt's Story by Patrick White, adapted for the stage and directed by Adam Cook. Melbourne Theatre Company presented by Company B at Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, until September 8. Note: pm (ends pm).
The Aunt's Story is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation. the aunt's story rejects any holistic understanding, if one comes at it searching for one the book will fall apart. theodora is searching, and falls apart, but it is in the falling apart that she reaches a sort of understanding. everything is fragments, there are innumerable fragments of truth that do not synthesise into a whole. often time they contradict each other, but they are still true. in many ways that is how you know they are true. The Aunt's Story is Theodora Goodman's story. The novel begins with the death of her mother, finally freeing Theodora, who had long been caring for her. Theodora's life contrasts with that of her sister, Fanny, who is married and has some children. All Theodora has managed is to be a spinster -- and an aunt.
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