The Solid Mandala

The Solid Mandala

Infobox Book
name = The Solid Mandala


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Patrick White
cover_artist = Desmond Digby
country = Australia
language = English
genre = Fiction
publisher = Eyre & Spottiswoode
pub_date = 1966
media_type = Print (Cloth)
pages = 317
isbn =

"The Solid Mandala" is the seventh published novel (1966) by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of two brothers, Waldo and Arthur Brown, and the mutually-dependent and mutually-antagonistic relationship they share: Waldo is cold and supremely rational in his behaviour while Arthur is more warm-hearted and instinctual, so that together they represent what White saw as the two conflicting and complementary halves of human nature. [Marr, David. "Patrick White: A Life". Sydney: Random House, 1991. 451-453.] It is notable for being heavily tipped to win the 1967 Miles Franklin Award, the third of White's novels to be nominated for the prize, until White personally intervened and withdrew it from consideration so that other writers might stand a chance of winning. [White, Patrick. Letter to Juliet O'Hea, 7 May 1967. "Patrick White: Letters". Ed. David Marr. Sydney: Random House, 1994. 312-313.]

External links

* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/excerpts/mandala_excerpt.html Excerpts from the novel] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
* [http://arts.abc.net.au/white/titles/novels/mandala.html Synopsis and interpretation by Alan Lawson] at the ABC's "Why Bother With Patrick White?" archive.
* [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s1796334.htm Overview of the novel] at ABC TV's "First Tuesday Book Club" website, including transcript of book group discussion.
* [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/video/default.htm?program=firsttuesday&pres=20061212&story=1 1973 video interview with Patrick White] in which he identifies "The Solid Mandala" as the best of the novels he had written up to that point.

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