Antonia Susan Byatt

Antonia Susan Byatt , British writer, was born on August 24th 1936 with Sheffield, England. It is usually known under the name of A.S. Byatt .

Life and work

A.S. Byatt made its studies in Newnham College, Université of Cambridge, Bryn Moor in Pennsylvania, the USA and Somerville College, Université of Oxford, but its research task within the latter ended with its first marriage. She taught in London University, the School Exchange off Art and Design and in University College of London. Being thereafter devoted only to the writing, A.S. Byatt published several novels, of which most known is Possession , title which gained the prestigious Booker Prize in 1990. Two of its books were adapted to the cinema: same Possession and Of the Angels and the Insects .

Also re-elected for its New S, A.S. Byatt seems to be influenced by Henry James and George Eliot, like Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot and Robert Browning, insofar as it combines the naturalism and the imaginary one of the literature victorienne. It chooses to present the imaginary one not like an escape, but like an alternative to the daily life, creating a kind of partly realistic kind, partly experimental, often called “hybrid”.

In addition to its works of fiction, A.S. Byatt also published various critical work, in particular of the studies on the work of Iris Murdoch.

Its Romance first , Shadow off has Sun , the history of an young girl who grows in the shade of a dominating father, was published in 1964 and was followed by The Game (1967), study of the relations between two sisters. The Virgin in the Garden (1978) is the first volume of a bearing quartet on the history of a family of the Yorkshire. This history continues in Still Life (1985) and Babel Tower (1996). The fourth and last Romance of this series has as a title has Whistling Woman (2002). The unit describes England of the middle of the 20th century, with like main character Frederica, a woman “bluestocking”, one of the first studied in Cambridge, then divorced, remaking its life with London. The last two volumes cover the years 1960 and approach the Utopias and dreams of revolutions of the time.

The younger sister by A.S. Byatt, Margaret Drabble, is also a known Romancière.

Possession

the topic : A cursed poet of the era victorienne, Randolph Henry Ash, unchains the competitions between academics. All the blows are allowed to put the hand on a new manuscript or to allot the benefit of information. Also when Roland Mitchell, enquiring young person, discover two letters of the Master addressed to an unknown factor, he undertakes without delaying to bore this mystery, competing on this point with Maud Bailey, teaching of another University. According to this research, the reader penetrates in the mysteries of the Romantisme English: old manors, spiritism, legends of Ys and Mélusine… The novel of A.S. Byatt is at the same time an police investigation, a love story, a literary Pastiche and a Satire of the academic world. (Sources: Flammarion editions.)

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