Brookner anita biography samples

Often compared to Jane Austen, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, sometimes simultaneously, Anita Brookner's brief, exquisitely wrought novels portray lonely, ordinary people, usually women, passively enduring somber ordinary lives in a bleak, gray London, skillfully delineated through reference to recognizable street names and shops.

This book made me look into the life of recluse Anita Brookner and I found this article “There Was No One Remotely Like Her,” written by Julian Barnes.

Brookner is where I go to be inside my secret hurting place.

Jacques-Louis David.

Anita Brookner has enjoyed several successful careers—as a British academic teaching art history at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge.

Anita Brookner was born in south London in , the daughter of a Polish immigrant family.

In her autobiographical first novel, A Start in Life, Brookner sets a characteristic theme and tone with another characteristic, references to literature and painting: "'About suffering they were never wrong, the Old Masters,' said Auden.

But they were. Frequently. Death was usually heroic, old age serene and wise. And of course, the element of time, that was what was missing." In Brookner's novels, the present stretches on and on into an uncharted future, days need filling up, while the past only informs when it is too late.

With little choice, Brookner's characters must bravely "soldier on."

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