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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/02/1997
ISBN: 9780679777533
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.68d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/04/1997 pg. 56
New York Times 09/14/1997 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1997 pg. 1078
Booklist 09/15/1997 pg. 197
Library Journal 10/01/1997 pg. 81