Research Catalog
Understanding Anita Brookner
- Title
- Understanding Anita Brookner / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm.
- Author
- Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2002]
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- Additional Authors
- Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008
- Description
- 219 pages; 19 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Understanding contemporary British literature
- Uniform Title
- Understanding contemporary British literature.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1570034354
- 9781570034350
- LCCN
- 2001003344
- OCLC
- ocm47120300
- 47120300
- SCSB-14636622
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library