Imagining Characters

By A.S. Byatt

Book Overview

The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and a revered psychoanalyst team up to share their insights on six of their favorite novels. In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701165006
• ISBN13: 9780701165000
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Eavesdropping on Great Conversations

The happiest moments of a liberal arts education usually take place late in the evening in a dormitory lounge or in a local bistro over several cups of coffee. They're conversations, often between two similarly minded people, that explore a favorite subject. Browsing through Imagining Characters is like lingering in a seat at the next table.The works selected are an English major's hit list of mainly nineteenth century women's novels. Byatt and Sodre bring their experience as a fiction writer and a clinical psychologist, respectively, to their understandings and develop complementary insights rather than rigorous debates.This isn't everyone's cup of java. The reader who enjoys this volume probably relishes at least half of the novels discussed, smiles at being called a feminist, and prefers discussion to formal criticism.