Another much-admired author, well at least here in Australia was Patrick White. From an older generation than that of Dessaix and from a very wealthy Australian pastoral family (one of the squattocracy) he had his hang ups about Australia and how inferior he felt it to be to Europe. (I suppose culturally, during most of his lifetime it was.)
He was also gay and probably this coloured his views of Australia, this country being so totally homophobic, misogynist and racist until the 1970's. He was a bit of an old curmudgeon in the end.
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Date: 2005-02-21 11:32 am (UTC)He was also gay and probably this coloured his views of Australia, this country being so totally homophobic, misogynist and racist until the 1970's. He was a bit of an old curmudgeon in the end.