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Anita Brookner Biografía y Hechos
Anita Brookner (Herne Hill, Londres; 16 de julio de 1928-10 de marzo de 2016)[1] fue una novelista, profesora e historiadora de arte británica.[2][3] Educación y carrera El padre de Brookner, Newson Bruckner, era un inmigrante polaco y su madre, Maude Schiska, una cantante estadounidense cuyo padre había inmigrado desde Polonia y fundado una compañía tabacalera. Anita Brookner tuvo una niñez solitaria, aunque su abuela y tío vivieron con su familia, y sus padres, judíos seculares, abrieron las puertas de su casa a refugiados judíos que escapaban de la persecución nazi durante la década de 1930 y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Brookner, hija única, nunca se casó. Brookner fue educada en la escuela para niñas James Allen. Recibió un BA en Historia del King's College London en 1949, y se doctoró en Historia del Arte en el Courtauld Institute of Art en 1953. En 1967 se convirtió en la primera mujer en obtener la cátedra Slade en la Universidad de Cambridge. Fue promovida al rango académico de Reader en el Courtauld Institute of Art en 1977, donde trabajó hasta su retiro en 1988. Brookner fue condecorada CBE (Comandante del Imperio Británico) en 1990. Fue Fellow del King's College London y del Murray Edwards College, de la Universidad de Cambridge. Vivió casi siempre en Londres, aunque pasó temporadas extensas en París. Obra Brookner escribió libros sobre arte de valía; entre ellos, estudios sobre Watteau, Greuze y Jacques-Louis David.[4] Brookner publicó su primera novela, A Start In Life (Un debut en la vida), en 1981, a los 53 años. Desde ese momento dio a la imprenta en promedio una novela por año (en total, escribió 24 hasta su muerte). Su cuarta novela, Hôtel du Lac, publicada en 1984, ganó el Booker Prize.[4] Brookner fue muy valorada por su estilo. Su literatura de creación, que está altamente influenciada por su propia experiencia de vida, explora temas como el aislamiento, la pérdida emocional y las dificultades asociadas a adecuarse en la sociedad inglesa. Sus novelas generalmente representan a mujeres intelectuales, de clase media, que sufren aislamiento, pérdidas emocionales y decepciones amorosas. Muchos de los personajes de sus libros son los niños de los inmigrantes europeos que experimentan dificultades para entrar en el modo de vida británico; a menudo son descendientes de familias judías.[2][5] Bibliografía Estudios sobre arte J. A. Dominique Ingres (1965) Watteau (1967) The Genius of the Future. Studies in French Art Criticism; Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the Brothers Goncourt, Huysmans (1971) Greuze (1725-1805): The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (1972) Jacques-Louis David. A Personal Interpretation (1974) Jaques-Louis David (1980) Great Paintings. Fifty Masterpieces, Explored, Explained and Appreciated (coautora) (1981) Romanticism and Its Discontents (2000) Novelas A Start in Life (1981); tr. como Un debut en la vida, Asteroide, 2018, con prólogo de Julian Barnes, 2016. Providence (1982) Look at Me (1983) Hôtel du Lac (1984) (ganadora del Booker Prize) Family and Friends (1985) A Misalliance (1986) A Friend from England (1987) Latecomers (1988) Lewis Percy (1989) Brief Lives (1990) A Closed Eye (1991) Fraud (1992) A Family Romance (1993) A Private View (1994) Incidents in the Rue Laugier (1995) Altered States (1996) Visitors (1997) Falling Slowly (1998) Undue Influence (1999) The Bay of Angels (2001) The Next Big Thing (2002), nominada al Booker Prize The Rules of Engagement (2003) Leaving Home (2005) Strangers (2009) At The Hairdresser's (2011) Referencias Enlaces externos Anita Brookner Collection en el Harry Ransom Center de la Universidad de Texas Reportaje en independent.co.uk. Descubre los libros populares de Anita Brookner. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Anita Brookner
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Home Thoughts
Tim ParksJulia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closelyknit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of expat...
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Eustace and Hilda
L. P. Hartley & Anita Brookner'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two childre...
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The Gardener
Salley VickersThe new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in H...
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Envy
Judy CorbettWhat happens when your beloved only daughter's friend turns out to be a destructive cuckoo in the nest? When girlish charm turns to seduction and teenage friendship to manipulation...
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From the Heart
Susan HillA devastating comingofage story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. ...
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With A Little Help From My Friends
Patricia BurnsThey were the talented ones young, fresh, arrogant, with a bright golden world swinging ahead of them. Then came that terrible, traumatic summer, their last summer together, the s...
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Most Buxom
Aishling MorganOne thing rules Daniel's life: voyeurism. A desire far too strong to be denied, despite all the guilt it brings him. He knows the risks and is determined to give up his filthy habi...
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King of the Fields
Isaac Bashevis SingerFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and vio...
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Diamond Dust & Other Stories
Anita DesaiWhole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to ...
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The River
Tricia WastvedtThe Orange Prize long listed debut novel by the author of The German BoyIn 1958, in a small Devon village, on an idyllic summer afternoon, two children are drowned. Their parents, ...
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Staying On
Paul ScottTusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hi...
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Imaginings Of Sand
André BrinkTHE BOOK: A narrative counterpoint between two women, two South Africas. Kristien Muller returns from London to her homeland to fulfil a promise. Her grandmother lies on her deathb...
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Henry And Cato
Iris MurdochHenry and Cato is the story of two prodigal sons. Henry returns from a selfimposed exile in America to an unforeseen inheritance of wealth and land in England. He is also returning...
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Look at Me
Anita BrooknerA lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionsh...
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Penelope Lively'You are in the hands of a master' Daily Mail'Thoughtful, intelligent and light of touch... Lively has the gift, rare and wonderful, of being able to peel back the layers one by on...
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Ammonites and Leaping Fish
Penelope LivelyA memoir that addresses ageing, memory, time and a life in the 20th century, by one of our greatest writers, Penelope Lively. 'This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view fr...
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Big Sky
Gareth CreerBig Sky is narrated by a mute called Jimmy Mack. A good man who has to do bad things, he has spent his childhood in and out of children's homes. A kind of benign Fagin figure, he...
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Perfect Happiness
Penelope LivelyPerfect Happiness is the fifth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international c...
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Orlando King
Isabel ColegateThe masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no...
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Elizabeth Finch
Julian BarnesThe Sunday Times Bestseller from the Winner of the Booker PrizeShe will change the way you see the world . . . 'I'll remember Elizabeth Finch when most other characters I've met th...
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Statues in a Garden
Isabel Colegate'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer 'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be...
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Essential Novelists - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton & August NemoWelcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most ...
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All Bones And Lies
Anne FineColin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. ...
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Dr Fischer of Geneva
Graham Greene‘Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length’ The TimesDoctor ...
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The Birds Have Also Gone
Yashar KemalThere is an ancient Turkish tradition which promises a place in paradise to anyone who sets a small bird free. Three boys start up a birdcatching business to enable people to free ...
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Last Stories
William TrevorA Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' El...
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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Violette Leduc'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee...
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The Boatman and Other Stories
Billy O'CallaghanThe breathtaking short story collection from the Costashortlisted Irish writerThree gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a ...
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The Art Of Surrender
Madeline BastinadoJude Ryan expects obedience. And she always gets it. Fellow artist, Michael Read, believes he can persuade any woman to submit to him. And he can be very persuasive. In Jude he fin...
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Small Pleasures
Clare ChambersPreOrder SHY CREATURES: the unforgettable new novel about love, family and freedom from awardwinning author of SMALL PLEASURES, Clare ChambersCOMING AUGUST 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE W...
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Winter in the Air
Sylvia Townsend WarnerThis Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes. 'Worth £9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Fa...
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Sterner Stuff
Stanley MiddletonFrank Montgomery is in T.S. Eliot's 'middle way', Principal of an art college, coping with an aging father and a mother in law on the dark descent into Alzheimer's. His marriage is...
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Zennor in Darkness
Helen DunmoreThey stand by side on the rock, facing out to sea. They are hidden from land here. Even spies would see nothing of them. It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor...
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Beastly Behaviour
Aishling MorganGenevieve Stukely is working as an erotic dancer in the American west when she learns that her uncle is dead and that she is to inherit the family estate on the borders of Dartmoor...
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Haunted
Laura ThorntonWhen Sasha comes across an old diary belonging to the late Lady Amelia Asher, the centuriesold manuscript transforms her life drastically. From the mundane and unappealing, Sasha f...
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A Study Guide for Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac"
The Gale GroupA study guide for Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac", excerpted from The Gale Group's acclaimed Novels for Students series. Designed with busy students in mind, this concise study gui...
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The Silence in the Garden
William TrevorThe Silence in the Garden by William Trevor a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersFamily secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish familyIn the...
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The Old Devils
Kingsley AmisMalcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soavesodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by...
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A Desert In Bohemia
Jill Paton WalshIt is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an ...
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Other People's Worlds
William TrevorOther People's Worlds by William Trevor a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writersWhat chance has a nice middleclass woman got against a determined conman?47year...
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The Message from Lindisfarne
Salley Vickers'A wonderful book. Salley Vickers spins a spellbinding account of a family in distress' Elizabeth Strout on 'Cousins'Spring, 1918. Nineyearold Charlotte Tye wakes up unusually earl...
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The Mulberry Tree
Elizabeth Bowen & Hermione LeeThis selection of Bowen's nonfictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of Londo...
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Shame On You
Clara SalamanCaroline Stern is just like any London teenager. Except that she lives in a religious sect.As a child of 'The Organization' her every move from what she eats to when she talks and...
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Walking the Dog and Other Stories
Bernard MacLavertyThe longawaited new collection from Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence face to face with real life, real death. A Catholic school...
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At Large and at Small
Anne FadimanButterflies, icecream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mo...
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Salvage
Robert EdricIt is the not too distant future. The Gulf Stream has ceased and the climate is plunged into turmoil. England has changed.Civil Servant Quinn is dispatched to conduct an audit on a...
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Ending Up
Kingsley AmisAt Tuppennyhapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his...
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The Good Wife's Castle
Roland VernonThe unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten underground bunker; a middle aged clergyman at a crisis point in his l...
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Fools of Fortune
William TrevorFools of Fortune by William Trevor a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writersWinner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the YearMurder and revenge during ...
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Losing Gemma
Katy GardnerTwo girls went travelling in search of adventure, in search of 'real life'. Only one came back ...A chilling, gripping novel about the backpacking holiday of a lifetime with utterl...