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      The Fictions of Anita Brookner

      by John Skinner
      Published
      Dec 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      196
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      The Fictions of Anita Brookner is the first full-length study of this controversial contemporary writer. After discussing critical assessments of Brookner, and attempts to relate her to various classics and contemporaries, Dr. Skinner skillfully combines insights from recent narrative theory with detailed analyses of nine novels. Moving from the first novels, and their close links with French literary models, he goes on to trace the increased sophistication of Hotel du Lac and the technical innovations of its successors.
      Drawing, finally, on the novelist's substantial interviews, Dr. Skinner confronts inevitable speculation on the autobiographical element in Brookner's fiction with the broader but equally pertinent issue of fiction in Brookner's (or indeed any writer's) autobiography.

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      Springer Nature B.V. ISBN13 9781349220151 ISBN10 1349220159
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      First Edition Dec 1991 MacMillan (UK) ISBN13 9780312068622 ISBN10 031206862X
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