Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison (Vintage International) - Softcover

Byatt, A. S.; Sodre, Ignes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679777539 ISBN 13: 9780679777533

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Analysts and novelists are both "narrators of our inner lives". Does their reading of fiction differ, or overlap? In this book A S Byatt, meets Ignes Sodre, a Brazilian psychoanalyst. In a series of vivid, enthusiastic conversations on the books they love, they bring their different backgrounds and professional experiences of "reading" to bear on six great novels: Jane Austen's MANSFIELD PARK, Charlotte Bronte's VILLETTE, George Eliot's DANIEL DERONDA, Willa Cather's THE PROFESSOR'S HOUSE, Iris Murdoch's AN UNOFFICIAL ROSE and Toni Morrison's BELOVED.

About the Author:

A.S. Byatt is the author of the novels Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), The Game, and the sequence The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. She has also written two novellas, published together as Angels and Insects, and four collections of shorter works, including The Matisse Stories and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye. Educated at Cambridge, she was a senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. A distinguished critic as well as a novelist, she lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679777539
• ISBN 13: 9780679777533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288