Antonia S. Byatt Libri

Un giovane ricercatore universitario inglese, Roland Michell, scopre per caso, in un libro di un poeta vittoriano, due minute di una lettera indirizzata a una donna. Colpito da un inspiegabile coinvolgimento, Roland inizia a indagare, identificando la destinataria, una poetessa, e collaborando con una collega per ricostruire il loro rapporto. In questo viaggio, visitano i luoghi in cui si incontravano, cercando di svelare il mistero di un amore dimenticato. Tuttavia, la forza di quell'amore passato si riflette anche nei due giovani, che si sentono spinti a replicarlo, portandoli verso una conclusione inaspettata. Il romanzo combina abilmente elementi romantici e gialli, decretando nel 1990 il successo internazionale dell'autrice, precedentemente nota come studiosa dell'Ottocento letterario inglese. Questo periodo rivive nel racconto, mescolandosi alle suggestioni contemporanee e sottolineando l'eternità dei comportamenti amorosi e delle passioni. La narrazione genera una strana suspense, come se l'indagine dei due ricercatori stesse per rivelare una verità più profonda, forse la chiave per comprendere il nostro posto nel mondo.

Tutto in Madame Bovary (1857) sembra disporre la scena dove il desiderio ha luogo insieme all'abisso che lo cancella. Emma Bovary ama come si divora, ama in una tragica voracità che somiglia a quella di un organismo incapace di assimilare, consuma se stessa e l'oggetto del suo desiderio in un tragico processo di alienazione amorosa, aiutata anche dal marito, Charles, che è tutt'altro che un uomo tranquillo e innocuo, ma un masochista morale di alto lignaggio che, con un sadismo perfettamente camuffato, contribuisce in maniera determinante al suicidio della moglie.

A fourth collection of contemporary British literature, including poetry, essays, short stories, and previews of novels in progress. Among the many contributors, including both new and established writers, are A.S. Byatt, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Fay Weldon, William Trevor and Brian Aldiss.

In her opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors', the author considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new 'Darwinian novel'. schovat popis

A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, these stories travel from the ancient mythic world to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace. Blazing with creativity, they show what lies beneath the veneer of the ordinary, and reveal the fantastical possibilities beyond. 'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful' Sunday Times 'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' Spectator 'Moving, witty and shocking' Sunday Telegraph

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published

A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, stories, essays and interviews with over 30 women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature such A.S. Byatt, Saskia Calliste, April De Angelis, Kit de Waal, Carol Ann Duffy, Sian Evans, Philippa Gregory, Mary Hamer, Jackie Kay, Shuchi Kothari, Bryony Lavery, Annee Lawrence, Roseanne Liang, Suchen Christine Lim, Jackie McCarrick, Laura Miles, Raman Mundair, Magda Oldziejewska, Kaite O’Reilly, Jacqueline Pepall, Gabi Reigh, Djamila Ribeiro, Fiona Rintoul, Jasvinder Sanghera, Anne Sebba, Kalista Sy, Debbie Taylor, Madeleine Thien, Claire Tomalin, Ida Vitale, Sarah Waters and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -Emma Woolf. Together with the original writing workshops plus black and white illustrations. Guest editor Ann Sandham has compiled the new collection to celebrate Aurora Metro’s 30th anniversary as an independent publisher; 20% of profits will to go to the Virginia Woolf statue campaign in the UK. -- Cheryl Robson ― Publisher

A landmark collection of poetry by one of Latin America's most important living writers.

Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense.

From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.