On Histories and Stories - Selected Essays

Name: On Histories and Stories
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Author: A S Byatt
ISBN: 9781473520493

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A S Byatt

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Paru le : 22/10/2018

In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses... > Lire la suite

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In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new 'Darwinian novel'. These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Burgess, William Golding and Muriel Spark, and other contemporary authors, including Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker.
She also offers fascinating insight into her own translation of historical fact into fiction in the two novellas which make up Angels and Insects.

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Date de parution : 22/10/2018
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4735-2049-3
EAN : 9781473520493
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Biographie d'A S Byatt

A. S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017.
In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.