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Novelist and literary critic A.S. Byatt recently read a selection from her work and answered questions in the final installment of Wordsworth Bookstore's fall reading series. Visiting the United States for the first time since 1957, Byatt is promoting her latest novel, Possession, which won the 1990 Booker Prize...
Those personal touches have been the focus of much hostility. A reviewer for London's Independent on Sunday accused Wolf of steamrollering her experiences "into a theory which takes no account of what has been happening in the rest of the Western world." A.S. Byatt, author of the best-selling novel Possession and a former University of London lecturer, agrees that images of beauty oppress women, but she is dubious about Wolf's notion of a conscious conspiracy. Instead, she says, the beauty business is pandering to dreams...
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt. Two contemporary British scholars, one male, one female, try to collect evidence about a presumed love affair between two Victorian poets, one male, one female. Antonia Byatt, who until recently has been known chiefly as Margaret Drabble's older sister, comes into her own as a novelist (and romancer) of dazzling inventiveness...
POSSESSION: A ROMANCE by A.S. Byatt (Random House; $22.95). Two young British scholars, one male, one female, investigate a possible affair between two long-gone Victorian poets. This novel, which has already won two major international fiction prizes, proves that a serious, intricate book can also be a page turner...
...Byatt, 54, has acknowledged the influence of Umberto Eco and John Fowles on her work, and traces of The Name of the Rose and The French Lieutenant's Woman are easy to find. But its manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession an original, and unforgettable, contribution...