Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema / dali48)
Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha / dali48)
„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)
see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.
see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.
Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking etc. (dali48)
Aus dem Englischen übersetzt-Der Literaturnobelpreis 1973 wurde dem australischen Schriftsteller Patrick White „für eine epische und psychologische Erzählkunst verliehen, die einen neuen Kontinent in die Literatur eingeführt hat“. Er ist der erste und einzige australische Preisträger. Wikipedia (Englisch)
Modern humanity's sense of loneliness and emptiness is a recurrent topic in his literary works.
Patrick White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, he developed a complex literary style and a body of work which challenged the dominant realist prose tradition of his home country, was satirical of Australian society, and sharply divided local critics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize.[note 1] Born in London to affluent Australian parents, White spent his childhood in Sydney and on his family's rural properties. He was sent to an English public school at age 13 and went on to read modern languages at Cambridge. On his graduation in 1935, he embarked on a literary career. His first published novel, Happy Valley (1939), was awarded the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. In World War Two, he served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force.
White returned to Australia in 1948 where he bought a small farm on the outskirts of Sydney.
White and Lascaris moved to Sydney's Centennial Park in 1964. From the late 1960s, White became increasingly involved in public affairs, opposing the Vietnam war and supporting Aboriginal self-determination, nuclear disarmament and various environmental causes.
At the age of four White developed asthma, a condition that had taken the life of his maternal grandfather, and his health was fragile throughout his childhood.[4]
He found his housemaster to be sadistic and puritanical, and White's certitude of his own homosexuality increased his sense of isolation. He later wrote of Cheltenham, "When the gates of my expensive prison closed I lost confidence in my mother, and [I] never forgave."[7]
White asked his parents if he could leave school to become an actor. His parents compromised and allowed him to leave school without taking his final examinations if he came home to Australia to try life on the land. But their son had already changed his mind on his future profession and was determined to become a writer.[11]
White returned to London where, in November, he was called up to an intelligence unit of the Royal Air Force. He was stationed at Bentley Priory during the Blitz before being transferred to North Africa in April 1941. He subsequently served in Egypt, Palestine and Greece. While stationed near Alexandria in July 1941 he met Manoly Lascaris, who was waiting to be recruited to the Royal Greek Army. Lascaris was to become White's life partner.[19][3]
White was working on The Solid Mandala, a novel about twins, Waldo and Arthur Brown, who represent contrary aspects of his own character.[32] He was becoming interested in Tarot, astrology, the I Ching and Jungian psychology, and these interests are reflected in the novel.
By 1984, White had become disillusioned with the Hawke Labor government and publicly and financially supported the new Nuclear Disarmament Party. White had been publicly campaigning for nuclear disarmament since 1981, calling it: "the most important moral issue in history."[59]
In late 1984, White was hospitalised due to osteoporosis, crumbled vertebrae and glaucoma resulting from his long-term use of cortisone to treat his asthma and chest infections. Although he was still mentally agile, his physical health and mobility were declining.[60]
White was hospitalised with pneumonia in August 1988. A nurse stayed at his home for the remainder of his life and he no longer had the strength to attend protest rallies.[67]
In July 1990, White contracted pleurisy and suffered a bronchial collapse. He refused to be hospitalised and died at home at dawn on 30 September.[69][70]
As the 1950s progressed, White became disillusioned with the Anglican church and his religious beliefs became more eclectic.[73] He once described himself as a "lapsed Anglican egotist agnostic pantheist occultist existentialist would-be though failed Christian Australian."[74] White stated in 1981 that he didn't call himself a Christian because he couldn't follow Christ's injunction to forgive.[74] In 1969, however, he had affirmed the importance of religion in his work: "Religion. Yes, that's behind all my books. What I am interested in is the relationship between the blundering human being and God."[75]
According to critic Brian Kiernan, "the basic situation in his [White's] fiction is the attempt of individuals, most often individuals alienated from society, to grasp some higher, more essential reality that lies beyond or behind social existence."[88] The search for a higher reality is most often presented as an exploration of various forms of religious or mystical experience[89] and the "seers" are variously pioneer-settlers (The Tree of Man), explorers (Voss), artists (The Vivisector), the simple-minded (The Solid Mandala), those fleeing into the self (The Aunt's Story) or those on the margins of society. Sexual ambivalence and the search for personal identity are also recurrent themes that becomes more prominent in the later novels.[90]
see dali48 and reading & writing about the Nobel Prize in Literature (siehe Literaturnobelpreisträger 1957 - 2024 etc.)
| Camus (1957) | Pasternak (1958) | Quasimodo (1959) | Perse (1960) | Andrić (1961) | Steinbeck (1962) | Seferis (1963) | Sartre (1964) | Scholochow (1965) | Agnon/Sachs (1966) | Asturias (1967) | Kawabata (1968) | Beckett (1969) | Solschenizyn (1970) | Neruda (1971) | Böll (1972) | White (1973) | Johnson/Martinson (1974) | Montale (1975) | Bellow (1976) | Aleixandre (1977) | Singer (1978) | Elytis (1979) | Miłosz (1980) | Canetti (1981) | García Márquez (1982) | Golding (1983) | Seifert (1984) | Simon (1985) | Soyinka (1986) | Brodsky (1987) | Mahfuz (1988) | Cela (1989) | Paz (1990) | Gordimer (1991) | Walcott (1992) | Morrison (1993) | Ōe (1994) | Heaney (1995) | Szymborska (1996) | Fo (1997) | Saramago (1998) | Grass (1999) | Gao (2000) | Naipaul (2001) | Kertész (2002) | Coetzee (2003) | Jelinek (2004) | Pinter (2005) | Pamuk (2006) | Lessing (2007) | Le Clézio (2008) | Müller (2009) | Vargas Llosa (2010) | Tranströmer (2011) | Mo (2012) | Munro (2013) | Modiano (2014) | Alexijewitsch (2015) | Dylan (2016) | Ishiguro (2017) | Tokarczuk (2018) | Handke (2019) | Glück (2020) | Gurnah (2021) | Ernaux (2022) | Fosse (2023) | Han (2024)
