episode 102 - A. S. Byatt - part 01
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- British writer A.S. Byatt is the author of dozens of novels, stories, and critical works. Her bestselling novel, Possession, won the 1990 Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, and her 2009 novel, The Children's Book, was short-listed for the same honor. Noting that she wishes to write about whole human beings, Byatt advocates for novels that convey the life of the mind as well as the heart. She talks about her career as a scholar and university teacher, her abandoning of scholarship for creative writing, the challenges of crafting Possession, and the importance of Shakespeare, George Eliot, Balzac, and Proust to her work. In discussing her composition of The Children's Book, a novel in which the arts and crafts movement plays a prominent role, Byatt observes that she likes having a hero or heroine who "makes" things. Byatt, who is the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble and art historian Helen Langdon, notes that although she comes from a highly accomplished family of writers, she nevertheless practices her craft in solitude. "I'm not a group animal," she says. "I'm a solitary animal."
Possession was fabulous on so many levels.
An tremendous interview. Reflective, intelligent, and bold. Excellent questions and superbly alive response.
Wow! I feel myself so gifted by watching "Possession movie" and now by listening to Mrs. A.S Byatt! Wow! Wow!
Well, since I was sixteen, I used to write those regular diary but pretty victorian desingned. Unfortunatly, I was never able to write anything like a novel or book. I would love to be in touch with Mrs. Byatt indeed!
Very interesting, thorough interview- thanks for the upload Im currently in the middle of "Possession" and have previously read "Angels and Insects", and think that A.S. Byatt is a very great writer.
Please read The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye. You will never forget that book.
So glad to have stumbled onto this series! I first read Possession in college, and now as a researcher (and genealogist) I totally get this feeling of trying to put one’s hands on, or around, the elusive past, to figure out what bigger picture the pieces fit into. Great work! I’m looking forward to exploring the series.
Her work is quality and lux ,top class
I misunderstood you at the beginning, thinking you were saying, "The Dreadful Interview"😆🤦
Great interview! Certainly not dreadful! I have never read Byatt, but this makes me want to look into her work for sure. Thank you!
does anyone know that painting of the man on the left side of the interviewer?
What an american introduction: its all about prices, and best selling,
respectless writer