Patrick White’s Voss: A Critical Study

Abstract

A significant segment of Common Wealth Literature is fromAustralia. Australian literature has vision, epic magnitude, inward explorations, outward recesses, outward explorations, spontaneous traditions of human mind and spirit. The Australian writer’s obsession with land makes its conscious of the minute. Patrick White, Nobel laureate, “uses conventional chronological novel from and chooses to express his mystical vision through the developing reverberation of his character’s progress”. His base of operation is basically religious. “He reveals knowledge of mystical and esoteric texts, combining spiritual experience and spiritual vision”.