The Matisse Stories 1993 AND "Possession,"by A. S. Byatt. 'The Chinese Lobster',
admirers of "Possession," A. S. Byatt's award-winning "romance" about passionate poets and nosy scholars, need only open her slim new book, "The Matisse Stories," to find themselves in familiar territory. For despite the vast ...
The Matisse Stories Paperback – April 30, 1996
by A. S. Byatt (Author)
These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.
"Full of delight and humor...The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion."--San Francisco Chronicle
From Library Journal
A best seller in England, where it was published in 1993, this beautifully illustrated volume contains three stories-each a sort of "still life" inspired by a particular Matisse painting-of seemingly ordinary women: a middle-aged teacher forced to play psychiatrist to her self-centered hairdresser; a cleaning woman with a passion for knitting; and a college dean discussing a case of sexual harassment with the accused over lunch in a Chinese restaurant. Byatt (Possession, LJ 11/1/90), who has been in the news lately for her principled stand against huge advances for literary fiction, is a consummate prose stylist, possessed of both perfect pitch for dialog and a painterly eye for the telling details that flesh out these characters and reveal their essential humanness. Highly recommended for fiction collections.
--David Sowd, formerly with Stark Cty. District Lib., Canton, Ohio
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (April 30, 1996)
Language: English
'The Matisse Stories' - AS Byatt - The Independent
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1994/01/09 - The words are Matisse's, to be found in 'The Chinese Lobster', the best of the three stories in A S Byatt's new collection. They are quoted by a politically incorrect art historian, Perry Diss, who has been accused of assault by ...
今天可以接受，因為當時的定價約28元人民幣而已。而且，讀者中像我這種Matisse專家的，肯定比萬翻之一少。他們或許需要更多的背景知識，這最好寫篇數萬字的介紹，然而，這畢竟遠比"加圖"的方式更麻煩。
'WHAT I dream of, is an art of balance, of purity, of quietness, without any disturbing subjects, without worry, which may be, for everyone who works with the mind, for the businessman as much as for the literary artist, something soothing, something to calm the brain, something analogous to a good armchair which relaxes him from his bodily weariness . . .' The words are Matisse's, to be found in 'The Chinese Lobster', the best of the three stories in A S Byatt's new collection. ...
Michael Dirda | |
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 Dirda in 2009 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) |
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Cornell University (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | Book critic for the Washington Post |
Michael Dirda (born 1948) is an American book critic, working for the Washington Post. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
Career
[edit]Having studied at Oberlin College for his undergraduate degree in 1970, Dirda earned an M.A. in 1974 and PhD in 1977 from Cornell University in comparative literature. In 1978 Dirda started writing for the Washington Post; in 1993 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his criticism.[1] Currently, he is a book columnist for the Post.[2]
In 2002, Dirda was invested as a member of The Baker Street Irregulars.[3]
Works
[edit]Two collections of Dirda's literary journalism have been published:[4]
- Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-253-33824-7
- Bound to Please (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005) ISBN 0-393-05757-7
He has also written:
- An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003) ISBN 0-393-05756-9 (autobiography)
- Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (New York: Henry Holt, 2005) ISBN 0-8050-7877-0
- Classics for Pleasure (Orlando: Harcourt, 2007) ISBN 0-15-101251-2
- On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011) ISBN 0-691-15135-0
- Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books (New York: Pegasus, 2015) ISBN 978-1-60598-844-3
On Conan Doyle was awarded the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical category.[5] (Reviewer Darrell Schweitzer lauds the book in The New York Review of Science Fiction.[6])
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