The Solid Mandala
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Solid Mandala is a deeply psychological novel that chronicles the intertwined lives of twin brothers, Arthur and Waldo Brown, across their entire lifetimes in suburban Sydney. Patrick White constructs a dual narrative, presenting the same shared existence through each brother's starkly different consciousness — Waldo, the intellectually proud but spiritually barren one, and Arthur, the seemingly simple-minded but profoundly enlightened one. The novel argues that true wisdom and wholeness — symbolised by Arthur's cherished glass marbles, or mandalas — are not found through intellect but through instinct, love, and suffering. Written with White's characteristically dense, luminous prose, the work stands as one of the most searching examinations of the human soul in twentieth-century fiction, and a key reason the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.
Author: Patrick White
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Solid Mandala is a deeply psychological novel that chronicles the intertwined lives of twin brothers, Arthur and Waldo Brown, across their entire lifetimes in suburban Sydney. Patrick White constructs a dual narrative, presenting the same shared existence through each brother's starkly different consciousness — Waldo, the intellectually proud but spiritually barren one, and Arthur, the seemingly simple-minded but profoundly enlightened one. The novel argues that true wisdom and wholeness — symbolised by Arthur's cherished glass marbles, or mandalas — are not found through intellect but through instinct, love, and suffering. Written with White's characteristically dense, luminous prose, the work stands as one of the most searching examinations of the human soul in twentieth-century fiction, and a key reason the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.