Байетт, Антония Сьюзен

«Обладать» — такое название было дано в русском переводе произведению английской писательницы Антонии Сьюзен Байетт. Впервые роман был опубликован в Англии в 1990 году, в том же году стал лауреатом Букеровской премии, а американский еженедельный журнал Time включил «Обладать» в список ста лучших романов, написанных на …

«Детская книга» — роман английской писательницы Антонии Сьюзен Байетт, попавший в шорт-лист Букеровской премии.

In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt …

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published seperately. Here they take their place with three other stories …

These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual …

The Biographer's Tale is a book by A. S. Byatt. The story is about a postgraduate student, Phineas G. Nanson, who decides to write a biography about an obscure biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes. During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of …