Anita Brookner (b. 1928-07-16 ) is an English novelist and art historian. She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School. She received a BA in History from King's College London in 1949 and a doctorate in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of...
Anita Brookner (born 1928), a British art historian specializing in 18th-and 19th-century painting, was the first woman to hold the rank of Slade Professor at Cambridge University (1967-68). Brookner is also a successful author, publishing several...
With the appearance of her first novel in 1981 Anita Brookner immediately secured a reputation as one of the finest stylists among contemporary writers of fiction in Britain. After a late start as a novelist Brookner has proved a prolific source of the...
Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) an English novelist and art historian was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.[1][2] Brookner's father, Newson Bruckner, was a Polish immigrant, and her mother, Maude Schiska, was a singer whose father had...
THE MISALLIANCE By Anita Brookner Pantheon. 191 pp. $14.95 IN THIS NOVEL, her sixth, Anita Brookner returns to the situation and themes that dominated her first four. The principal subject of her fiction, though she departed from it briefly in Family and Friends, is...
Anita Brookner is known for her depictions of exiled Polish Jews in England and particularly for her portrayal of women trapped in patriarchal systems of relationships which they cannot escape. Thus, her heroines partake of tragedy by their inability to take control of their...
THE UNCOMMON READER By Alan Bennett Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $15 To read is to be slightly ill. And the symptoms only worsen when reading something good. A 19th-century novel, a Bleak House or an Anna Karenina, commits us to its pages with...
In the past two years, Anita Brookner's novels The Debut and Look at Me have delighted readers here and in Great Britain. With Providence,… she effectively claims her territory as a writer. "Territory" may, however, be too large a word to suit these politely agoraphobic works. With several other British novelists of past and present, Anita Brookner shares a love of order and pattern, a discreet sense of humor, and a piquant awareness of manners, as well as a rather small canvas. ...
The heroine of [Look at Me] … catalogues images in a medical library—images of melancholy, of madness, of nightmare, of disease and affliction. Pictures by Géricault, El Greco, Durer, Goya, a gallery of morbid visions, pass through her hands daily ("our collection is rather naturally weighted towards the incalculable or the undiagnosed"). Her function in the world, as she defines it, is to maintain her files: to nod, to smile politely, to fetch and carry, to observe, to re...
Kitty in Providence is the sort of heroine an author invents in order to subject her to a life of disappointments. These are mitigated for her by academic interests—hers in the Romantic tradition, her lover's in French cathedrals. The novel is warm and delightful about donnish life, exhibiting its own kind of donnishness in a sentence like 'The dog was very old, and did not seem particularly viable.' But Kitty's plight is to be half-French, and her common sense, her clothe...
An examination of British novelist Anita Brookner's depiction of female protagonists. Connects common characteristics in the characters. Concludes that many of Brookner's characters often struggle between idealism and reality.
