The Vivisector
Patrick White
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him—all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Year
- 1970
- ISBN-13
- 9780140185270
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- The creative process and artistic obsessionCruelty and exploitation in relationshipsPsychological and sexual menace
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1970)
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