Mon compte
Se connecter Inscription
Tous
Panier
En Vedette
Livres de fiction
Livres de non-fiction
Livres pour enfants
Livres rares
Musique
DVD et Blu-Ray
Video Games
Catégorie
Listes de favoris
Panier
Tous
Livraison gratuite
Trustpilot
Nous sommes Neutres au Carbone

On Histories and Stories A S Byatt

On Histories and Stories par A S Byatt

On Histories and Stories A S Byatt

€7.00
État - État d'usage
Disponible en seulement 2 exemplaire(s)
État d'usage

Résumé

In her opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors', the author 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'.

On Histories and Stories Résumé

On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays A S Byatt

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.

On Histories and Stories Avis

Going from reference to reference in these glittering pages provides you with an essential reading-list for life * The Times *
Invigorating criticism * Independent on Sunday *
Biographers, as well as novelists, will find much to celebrate in a collection of essays that is so lavish with quotations from philosophers, essayists and historians... An elegant and thoughtful collection * Literary Review *
Reminds us definitively that she is not only one of our best living novelists, but one of our most astute readers, too. We are lucky to have her * New Statesman *
A rare and perhaps unique figure; a critic whose insights are full of a sympathetic, creative and re-creative imagination...The mind that produced splendid, strange fictions is also a first-rate critical intelligence... A writer of remarkable, broad sympathies * Observer *

À propos de A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is 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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR008312832
9780099283836
0099283832
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays A S Byatt
A S Byatt
Occasion - État d'usage
Broché
Vintage Publishing
20011101
208
N/A
La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Il s'agit d'un livre d'occasion. Nous faisons notre possible pour vous proposer des livres de bonne qualité, mais il ne faut pas oublier qu'ils ont déjà appartenu à d'autres personnes qui les ont lus. Par conséquent, le livre présentera des signes d'usure et peut être un ancien livre de bibliothèque.