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2 giorni fa · Antonia Byatt, grande scrittrice autrice di questo capolavoro letterario, è anche una studiosa dei miti nordici ed evidentemente appassionata estimatrice dell'arte Liberty.
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3 giorni fa · Il libro dei bambini, di Antonia Susan Byatt, Einaudi – Nelle caldi estati dell’era edoardiana, i bambini Wellwood giocano in un mondo da favola nella loro casa spaziosa vicino a Romney Marsh. Ma le loro vite, così come quelle dei loro cugini e amici, sono già segnate dal mistero.
4 giorni fa · So is AS Byatt’s Possession. Sylvia Plath is a recent obsession. I reread The Bell Jar and then this brilliant biography of her by Heather Clark, which got me interested in her journals and letters.
5 giorni fa · Byatt’s Possession was the much-talked-about winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, and it seems highly likely that Rowling has read it. The novel synthesizes every possible version of the snake woman myth and one of these – Friedrich de la Motte Fouqée’s Undine (1811) – creates a striking analog for Leta’s story, and the drowning of her baby brother, in Crimes of Grindelwald .
The Royal Society of Literature ( RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, the RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are ...
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22 ore fa · Dame Antonia Susan Duffy has written under the name A. S. Byatt for many years. She was a novelist, poet, and a recipient of the Booker prize.
5 giorni fa · The blurb on my 2017 Virago reissue of Angel (1957) by the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) includes a comment about Taylor by Sarah Waters: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. But I don't agree. Angel is a brutal take-down of working-class aspiration, and while it's amusing for a while, at 300+….
