A S Byatt
Articles by A S Byatt
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The dying animal
- 24 April 2006
In the post-religious world of Philip Roth's fiction, humans do not have immortal souls. Death and desire is all we are. A S Byatt on a brief and bleak morality tale for our times
Everyman
Philip Roth Jonathan Cape, 182pp, £10
ISBN 0224078690
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Dreams and reality. J M Barrie is often seen as a man in pursuit of an impossible eternal childhood. Yet what is most striking about his life is not the Peter Pan fantasies, but the series of real deaths that shaped it. By A S Byatt
- 11 July 2005
Hide-and-Seek With Angels: a life of J M Barrie
Lisa Chaney Hutchinson, 402pp, £20
ISBN 0091795397
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A small person's paradise. Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for The Secret Garden, but she was also a prolific author of novels and plays for adults. A S Byatt on a writer whose remarkable life was spent recreating her own mythologised childhood self and her idealised dead son
- 19 April 2004
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gretchen Gerzina Chatto & Windus, 359pp, £20
ISBN 0701168927
Ideas
Forgotten favourites - The wrong side of Paris. For Henry James, Balzac was the indisputable master. A S Byatt on why this visionary is not as vast and unapproachable as he seems
- 01 December 2003
L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine
Translated by Jordan Stump Modern Library Classics, 272pp, £14.95
ISBN 2070370569
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The one bright book of life
- 16 December 2002
Once revered as a "great genius of our time", D H Lawrence has today become something of a national joke. A S Byatt defends the ambition and vision of a writer considered increasingly unworthy of being taught at our universities
Ideas
Pursued by furies. Once condemned to death for treason, Dostoevsky eventually became Russia's national prophet. A S Byatt on an "unrepeatably individual, tormented and brilliant life"
- 16 September 2002
Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1871-1881
Joseph Frank Robson Books, 784pp, £29.95
ISBN 0691086656
Arts & Culture
Painted faces
- 03 December 2001
In her own novels, A S Byatt has often evoked the power of portraits. Here, she examines the relationship between writers' and artists' images
Books
Only connect. A S Byatt admires a novel that explores the simultaneous memory and forgetting of modern Germany
- 15 October 2001
Austerlitz
W G Sebald Hamish Hamilton, 432pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241141257
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Oh lord, where are you? In her new work, Muriel Spark imagines what became of Lord Lucan after he disappeared. A S Byatt on the pure wickedness of one of Britain's most respected living novelists
- 11 September 2000
Aiding and Abetting
Muriel Spark Viking, 182pp, £12.99
ISBN 0670894281
Arts & Culture
Strange and charmed
- 10 April 2000
Science is changing our moral world. But, writes A S Byatt, it is also altering the visual landscape, as artists respond to its discoveries and challenges
