Voss
Patrick White · 1957
Nobel Prize-winning prose about a love story that exists largely as psychic communion. German explorer Voss and the colonial girl Laura Trevelyan are connected across hundreds of miles of Australian desert in an almost mystical bond. White's prose is dense and demanding; the love story is stranger and more powerful for it.
The case against
White's prose performs its own desert crossing: syntax inverted, nothing said plainly that could be said sideways. The central romance asks you to accept that two people who met a handful of times in Sydney commune telepathically across a continent. Rapture or affectation; four hundred pages gives you ample time to decide, and White does not hurry to help.
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