Background
BYATT, Antonia was born on August 24, 1936. Daughter of His Honour John F. Drabble, Queen's Counsel and late Kathleen M. Bloor.
( As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri L...)
As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own translation of historical fact into fiction, or exploring the recent European revival of interest in myth, folklore, and fairytale, Byatt's abiding concern here is with the interplay of fiction and history. Her essays amount to an eloquent and often moving meditation on the commitment to historical narrative and storytelling that she shares with many of her British and European contemporaries. With copious illustration and abundant insights into writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Burgess, William Golding, Muriel Spark, Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, and Pat Barker, On Histories and Stories is an oblique defense of the art Byatt practices and a map of the complex affiliations of British and European narrative since 1945.
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The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
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(Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak...)
Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form. Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women, childhood friends reunited by chance, venture into a dark forest where once, many years before, they saw–or thought they saw–something unspeakable. Another woman, recently bereaved, finds herself slowly but surely turning into stone. A coolly rational ob-gyn has his world pushed off-axis by a waiflike art student with her own ideas about the uses of the body. Spellbinding, witty, lovely, terrifying, the Little Black Book of Stories is Byatt at the height of her craft.
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(In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the p...)
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in the ways literature grips its readers and, at times, transforms their lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.
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(These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal...)
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority. "Full of delight and humor...The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion."--San Francisco Chronicle
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(Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath...)
Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life.
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(A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for t...)
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder. "Byatt's stories display all her talents as a novelist, but spiced with an additional friskiness...a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather than describe, giving a teacup, a mountainside, or the night sky a texture and density that go beyond words on a page."-- "Evening Standard"
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(A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for t...)
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder.
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BYATT, Antonia was born on August 24, 1936. Daughter of His Honour John F. Drabble, Queen's Counsel and late Kathleen M. Bloor.
Sheffield High School, The Mount School, York, Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn MawT College, Pennsylvania, United States of America and Somerville College, Oxford.
Lecturer, University of London 1962-1971. Lecturer in Literature, Central School of Art and Design 1965-1969. Lecturer in English, University College, London 1972-1981, Senior Lecturer 1981-1983.
Association Newnham College, Cambridge since 1977.
Chairman 1986-1988); broadcaster, reviewer and judge of literary.
(Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath...)
(In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the p...)
( As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri L...)
(The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite enterta...)
(These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal...)
(Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak...)
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(A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for t...)
(A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for t...)
Board of Creative and Performing Arts 1985-1987.
Married 1st Ian C. R. Byatt in 1959 (dissolved in 1969), one son (deceased), one daughter. Married 2nd Peter J. Duffy in 1969, two daughter.