He also created the covers for Patrick White's "The Vivisector", David Storey's "Saville". In 1968, White wrote "The Vivisector", a searing character portrait of an artist. A vivisector is one who engages in vivisection. Phat, Vivisector, and Bloke (until their deaths) and the villains Mystique and Destiny. The Vivisector is the eighth published novel by Patrick White. The longest of White's novels, "The Vivisector" was written in 1968.