Research Catalog

Title

The fictions of Anita Brookner : illusions of romance / John Skinner.

Author

Skinner, John, 1945-

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Description

ix, 196 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Fictions of Anita Brookner is the first full-length study of this controversial contemporary writer. After discussing critical assessments of Brookner, and attempts to relate her to various classics and contemporaries, Dr. Skinner skillfully combines insights from recent narrative theory with detailed analyses of nine novels. Moving from the first novels, and their close links with French literary models, he goes on to trace the increased sophistication of Hotel du Lac and the technical innovations of its successors. Drawing, finally, on the novelist's substantial interviews, Dr. Skinner confronts inevitable speculation on the autobiographical element in Brookner's fiction with the broader but equally pertinent issue of fiction in Brookner's (or indeed any writer's) autobiography.

Subject

• Brookner, Anita > Criticism and interpretation
• Women and literature > England > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The French Connection. A Start in Life. Providence. Look at Me -- 3. Novel Departures. Hotel du Lac. Family and Friends. A Misalliance -- 4. Creative Returns. A Friend from England. Latecomers. Lewis Percy -- 5. Fictions of the Self. Narrative Strictures. Autobiographical Structures.

ISBN

031206862X

LCCN

^^^91004989^

OCLC

24065402

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library