Understanding Anita Brookner

by Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander

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Title Statements

Full title :Understanding Anita Brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm.

Summary

"Understanding Anita Brookner examines the undeniably bleak view of the world in Brookner's fiction and the solitary protagonists whose "faith in a better world" is both their tragedy and their beauty. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm acquaints the reader with Brookner's distinguished career (first as an eminent art critic and historian, then as a writer), critical acclaim and awards, London birth and lifelong residence, and Polish Jewish family background. She examines the limited range of literary forms with which Brookner, abjuring the postmodern devices of jumbled chronologies and multiple narrators, contents herself. She illustrates Brookner's recurrent point of view, characterized by traditional British cultural values - understatement, deference to authority, and acceptance of a class system."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2002

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of South Carolina Press
Place of Publication:Columbia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002

The Physical Object

Description:219 pages ; : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1570034354, 9781570034350
oclc:ocm47120300
LC Classification:PR6052.R5816
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Understanding Anita Brookner -- Can't buy me love: The debut, Providence, Look at me, and Hotel du Lac -- What child is this ... : Family and friends, The misalliance, A friend from England, and Latecomers -- Happily ever after? Lewis Percy, Brief lives, and A closed eye -- Starting over: Fraud, Dolly, and A private view -- Journeying to the end: Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered states, and Visitors -- Back to the beginning? Falling slowly and Undue influence.

Subjects

Brookner, Anita Criticism, interpretation, etc England Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 20… History Women and literature Women and literature -- History -- 20th…