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There\u2019s a pretty devastating review of A.S. Byatt\u2019s latest novel in the current issue of The New Republic <\/i> . I\u2019ve not kept pace with Byatt since I read Possession <\/i> years ago, but I remember being impressed with Byatt\u2019s erudition and range as a writer. The TNR <\/i> reviewer, though, suggests that Byatt uses erudition and a trendy post-modern pastische of styles to mask the fact that she\u2019s got no characters and no real plots. He charges that she is not really a novelist of ideas so much as a melodramatist. The review provides little encouragement to read Byatt, but I\u2019m curious to figure out why I was so impressed with Possession <\/i> . <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s a pretty devastating review of A.S. Byatt\u2019s latest novel in the current issue of The New Republic . I\u2019ve not kept pace with Byatt since I read Possession years ago, but I remember being impressed with Byatt\u2019s erudition and range as a writer. The TNR reviewer, though, suggests that Byatt uses erudition and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"yoast_head":"\n