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y separately published work icon Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait
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Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait Patrick White , London : Jonathan Cape , 1981 Z443896 1981 single work autobiography (taught in 2 units)

'A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama.

'In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage ed.).

Auto/biography: Narratives of the Self La Trobe University 2009
y separately published work icon Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait Patrick White , London : Jonathan Cape , 1981 Z443896 1981 single work autobiography (taught in 2 units)

'A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama.

'In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage ed.).

Auto/biography: Narratives of the Self La Trobe University 2010 (Semester 1)
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