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Word: vivisector (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Voss (1957), a study of a German exploring the Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly rejects life whenever it impinges upon his work. White himself is an intensely private man who lives in Sydney with several dogs and a male housekeeper, and almost never grants interviews. (When he won the Nobel last November White remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Villains of Refinement | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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