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D’Haveloose, Wim

Wim D’Haveloose lives in Ghent and is a reviewer and translator into Dutch,
mainly of plays, among them Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.

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20070901135550 Mary Kuper, An overpowering, breathtaking land - Wim d'Haveloose on Patrick White, Voss - Slightly Foxed Issue 15

A Landscape Without Figures

Wim D'Haveloose on Patrick White, Voss

I first read Voss about forty years ago and didn’t pick it up again until very recently. A few years later I was somewhat disappointed by one or two of White’s other books and this must have tainted my recollection. I certainly remembered Voss as a powerful metaphor for the condition of modern man, but when I reread it I was surprised by its force and inevitability. The Marxist critic George Lukács once defined the novel as the epic of a world from which the gods have departed. Voss is first and foremost a gripping epic and the gods have indeed disappeared – or almost: there is still spirituality in the air and the characters seem to have developed special antennae for it.

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