The Vivisector
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
"This Patrick White masterpiece, now in a Vintage Classics edition Hurtle Duffield, a painter, is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the victims of his art. He is the vivisector, dissecting their weaknesses with cruel precision: his sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, and the passionate illusions of his mistress Hero Pavloussi. 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."
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A book of hard truths about living the creative life. I can't think of any other book that would be as good as this one on the process of generating ideas and how a mind becomes possessed with them until they are fully realised. Very, very good writing, but a slow read, especially the last few pages.
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