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	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Anita Brookner
		Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928.
		Brookner taught at the University of Reading from 1959 to 1964, and since 1967 has been a Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld.
		Since her first novel was published in 1981, Brookner has had a dual career as an art historian and a novelist.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-brookner-anita.asp (125 words)

	A woman adrift
		Anita Brookner's female protagonists have the same damaged sensibilities and shriveled lives as Tennessee Williams' immortal Blanche Dubois, yet they lack her romanticism, humor and glamorous self-deception.
		Brookner is adept at capturing the sad, swift passage of time that mauls and gobbles up even the most timid of dreams.
		Brookner is often praised for the wit and beauty of her prose, but here it doesn't seem precise or compelling.
	www.freep.com /fun/books/undue26_19991226.htm (573 words)

	joe fyfe on romanticism and its discontents by anita brookner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		What is happening is Brookner has returned to what now appear to be her models--some of the chief Romantic figures--and her subject, Romanticism, after examining it imaginatively in her fiction for twenty years.
		In this aspect, Brookner articulates the same space that Griselda Pollock (who was a student of Brookner's at the Courtauld) writes about in her book on Mary Cassatt, where she challenges the preeminence of public (male) spaces in the 19th century depiction of urban modernity, and posits a continuum with the private (female) domestic space.
		Brookner portrays the relationship dryly: "he (Baudelaire) goes on to analyse Ingre's tastes and methods with far greater accuracy than he normally devotes to Delacroix, whom he is content to define in metaphors that feed into his poetry ("Delacroix, lac de sang hante de mauvais anges").
	www.artcritical.com /JFBrookner.htm (1649 words)

	Anita Brookner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Brookner usually presents a single woman (or as the author herself ages, an older single woman) who consents to a life of such lonely and passive frustration as to be pathological.
		Though most Brookner novels are told in the third person centering on one female consciousness, she has written several novels with first-person female narrators and several novels which center on male characters.
		Brookner is often good at rendering male friendships, and here the details of the relationship of Alan and Brian are particularly well done: their tacit understandings, their reproaches, their comments on women.
	www.people.carleton.edu /~gsoule/brookner.htm (5231 words)

	Anita Brookner \| AUTHOR CATALOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
		Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life.
		The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=3370 (1158 words)

	Anita Brookner
		Anita Brookner had a distinguished career as an art historian at Cambridge, and taught for many years at the Courtauld Institute in London before retiring in 1988.
		Brookner is far more than the 'Miss Lonelyhearts' of British novelists, but she is undeniably preoccupied by romantic disappointment, even despair.
		And this is typical Brookner: a woman's placid existence is interrupted by people and events outside her control, pushed to a certain point of emotional crisis, before resuming its progress towards isolation, or, more positively, greater realism.
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	Bookreporter.com - THE BAY OF ANGELS by Anita Brookner
		Brookner very brusquely lays down her conceit of life as a fairy tale flawed at its very core.
		Her crystalline diction and posing of affected rhetorical questions can leave the impression that you are in the presence of a grande dame recalling better times and not a youthful narrator, albeit one drained of id or impetus towards happiness.
		Brookner does not simper or indulge in thoughtless optimism; Zoe asks herself while observing her mother's recovery from her sleep cure in Nice whether or not her mother would be better off dead:
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0375727604.asp (558 words)

	Anita Brookner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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		Anita Brookner Bibliography Chronological record of Brookner's published essays and criticism on art and literature.
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	Anita Brookner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Brookner's first novel was A Start in Life (1981), and she has generally published one book every year since then.
		In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym.
		She passes the time working in a bookstore, where she meets a mysterious and attractive young man whose wife is ill, and they begin a relationship that dramatically alters Claire's vision of herself, her past, and her future.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/brookner_anita.htm (668 words)

	Unwelcome Guests: Anita Brookner's Visitors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Anita Brookner’s Visitors (or any Brookner novel, for that matter) is not for you.
		Brookner's fiction, including her Booker award winning Hotel Du Lac, often delves into the lives of solitary characters, and Visitors is no exception.
		Brookner devotes the first two chapters to outlining Dorothea’s routine so that we feel the full force of Dorothea’s angst when, at the end of the second chapter, that routine is disrupted.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/6021/92287 (1234 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Rules of Engagement : A Novel (Brookner Anita) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Anita Brookner, who has just published her 22nd novel, The Rules of Engagement, was, before she became a novelist, a distinguished scholar of 18th-century French art.
		The situation is one familiar to Brookner's readers: a passive, undemanding woman who feels herself an outsider, bored by her soporific husband, uncherished by her heartless lover and despised by his powerful and sophisticated wife.
		Anita Brookner writes in a style that harkens back to Henry James: so much of her prose is icy, matter-of-fact and at times clinical.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400061652?v=glance (2164 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Hunger art: the novels of Anita Brookner
		Yet paradoxically, Brookner's limitation are one source of her great strength: hers is not merely a neurotic, but in its cumulative effect a genuinely tragic, vision.
		Though Brookner eloquently reveals that behind or within the "nothing to see" there is plenty to see, her novels about the hidden lives of women never really challenge this economy.
		The characteristic maneuver of Brookner's heroines is to attempt to replace nothing with something, in imitation of the ones they feel to be lucky, hares instead of tortoises in the race of life (Hotel 27-28).
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	Undue Influence by Anita Brookner, 0754053229, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Brookner, who is seen by some critics as the embodiment of Jamesian exactitude, as almost prissy, is really quite the opposite.
		An almost pathological writer, Brookner returns again and again to her notion of the inability of modern women to think of marriage as something that will rescue them--and yet who are pulled towards the ideal (an ideal they easily deconstruct) of a romantic saviour.
		What was wonderful about the way Anita Brookner writes is that it takes you through the character's range of emotions and at the same time does not require the reader to acknoledge her as a heroine.
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	Anita Brookner - new and used books
		Brookner explores the consequences of sensuality, passion, and betrayal, and of a surprising love affair, Maud Gonther meets David Tyler at her aunt's summer home.
		Brookner, who has been described as a modern day Jane Austen, explores the conflicting needs of men and women - a devastating portrain of moral vulnerability and loss of innocence.
		Brookner compresses the lives of three generations of women into a powerful story of romance and personal awakening.
	www.isbn.pl /A-Anita-Brookner/P-8 (1113 words)

	Brookner, Anita on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Happily ever after, almost Anita Brookner's latest novel is a reminder of just how good she can be, says Caroline Moore
		Books: Life in genteel hell Anita Brookner's 19th novel is, of course, about misery - but it is a good one, says Jane Shilling
		Hare and tortoise love Anita Brookner breathes new life into her familiar themes, says David Robson
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Brookner.asp (463 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Hotel Du Lac (Vintage Contemporaries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But as in all of Anita Brookner's novels, there are deep layers to apparent dullness, and the traquillity of the hotel's atmosphere and the predictability of its guests is only apparent.
		Anita Brookner is a writer of enormous intelligence and subtlety.
		With Brookner the heart of the story is not in the major movements of the plot but with the line- by- line perceptions which mark out an extremely intelligent observer of the heart's minor motions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679759328?v=glance (1883 words)

	Anita Brookner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Anita Brookner, Includes a brief biography and summaries of four novels.
		Anita Brookner: The Next Best Thing, New Zealand Herald: According to this reviewer of Brookner's twenty-first novel, "The Next Big Thing is less a novel than an obsessive character study and, as is so often the case, there is nothing as dull as somebody else's obsession."-MJM
		Bibliographies of Essays and Criticism of Anita Brookner, Yukiko (Ito) Kitamura's bibliography is a "chronological record of Anita Brookner's published essays and criticism on art and literature." Includes, in addition, a bibliography of her novels.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-britauthors/brookner-anita.htm (359 words)

	Mind Over What Matters? / Anita Brookner's independent heroine is too smart for her own good
		Anita Brookner's independent heroine is too smart for her own good
		For as the story of an affair unwinds, we become edgily aware that for all her penetrating social insights and formidable power of self-analysis (the book smacks of high IQs), Claire is deceiving herself, and, perhaps worse, she is deceiving others who use their misperception as license to abuse her.
		Neville in Brookner's novel, ``Hotel du Lac,'' Martin Gibson in ``Undue Influence'' mistakes the heroine for tougher than she is. Where Neville thinks his dry-witted fiancee too ``mature'' to flinch at his one-night stands, Martin imagines his seasoned temptress too cool to merit friendship.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/09/RV84969.DTL&type=printable (800 words)

	'Altered States' by Anita Brookner
		Brookner is no Proust - for one thing, shes writes a lot less - but she has a similar ability to delve into the minds of the characters in her novels and to illuminate their actions or, in most cases, their lack of actions.
		A true Brookner protagonist, Sherwood ruminates in stately prose that is a pleasure to read for the author's elegant style.
		Her novels are often compared to Jane Austen's for their literary quality, but they lack the humor and satirical touches of the Austen works.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19970302review4.asp (397 words)

	World and I: The secret sharer: an interview and profile of Anita Brookner.@ HighBeam Research
		Anita Brookner was well established as a art historian when she began her career as a novelist in 1981 with 'A Start in Life.' She has written seventeen novels in the years since.
		Her style has been compared to Jane Austen and Henry James in that she explores different perspectives fo the same picture.
		Anita Brookner has vowed never to give another interview, but in the end she invited me to her house for tea.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:21156245&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (203 words)

	AllRefer.com - Anita Brookner (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Anita Brookner, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Anita Brookner 1928–;, English writer and art critic.
		Her quiet, often bleak novels usually concern lonely meek, and genteel middle-aged women (and occasionally men), unlucky in love and yearning for it, but largely unable to establish relationships with those around them.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Brookner.html (259 words)

	Leaving Home by Anita Brookner, 0670915688, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Brookner's territory in this novel is the intimate dance between order and passion as it manifests in history, garden design, the relations between people, and in the internal, even subliminal, struggles between mind and heart.
		This book will be enjoyable to Brookner fans as it contains many of her trademark features, long walks, empty Sundays, coffee, a healthy income(although not at the beginning of the book, it does come later)visits to Selfridges Food Hall and a French connection.
		Anita Brookner is a novelist who takes a small canvas and paints her story with precision.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0670915688 (450 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
		The persistence with which Brookner plots this territory would have exhausted the wit of many other novelists by now, but it is a tribute to her art that she still performs with vigour and variety within such circumscribed limits.
		In her examination of her current predicament, she expresses the banal fatalism that is almost obligatory in Brookner's lead character.
		All this is related in conventional Brookner style with a weighty dependence on the interior monologue.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/undue.html (412 words)

	The Sunday Telegraph: Books: Criticism with dignity Rupert Christiansen enjoys Anita Brookner's cultural essays@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ANITA BROOKNER's detractors brand her fiction airless and sour; her admirers prefer to praise its elegance and intelligence.
		Readers of this collection of her essays and lectures - largely focused on her scholarly speciality, the culture of 18th- and 19th-century France, and written in counterpoint to her novels over the last 20-odd years - may respond in a similarly divided fashion.
		As a critic, Professor Brookner displays no empty flamboyance or appetite for controversy.
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	Anita Brookner books on Archivesinc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Here she reaches new heights of insight and empathy in the story of a woman whose life, while not brief in years, is emotionally s tunted, circumscribed by her passive personality and the social climate of her times.
		Brookner dips her pen in acid for her portrait of the po isonous Julia, and in rue for her evocation of the specter of solitary old age that Fay faces with dignity.
		text clean; binding tight Amazonm Anita Brookner has no illusions about desire--or illusion--yet she is well aware of their unrelenting power.
	www.archivesinc.com /pg/anitabrookner.html (836 words)

	Powell's Books - Brief Lives (Vintage Contemporaries) by Anita Brookner
		Thrust together by their husbands' business partnership — and by a guilty secret — Julia and Fay develop an intense bond that is nonetheless something less than intimacy, a relationship in which we see our own uneasy compromises, not only with other people, but with life itself.
		"Anita Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight."
		Empathy informs all of Anita Brookner's novels, [and] Brief Lives is yet another instance of her large and knowing heart."
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0679737332 (294 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| A Friend from England by Anita Brookner
		Brookner’s consistently high level of achievement: the penetration of her vision, the sense of conviction in what she is doing, and the unforced elegance of her writing.” –The Wall Street Journal
		"Anita Brookner is a novelist of astonishing technical skill, and A Friend from England is a very good book.
		Anita Brookner was born in London and, apart from several years spent in Paris, has lived there ever since.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400095212 (404 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
		In this deeply perceptive story, Anita Brookner brilliantly charts the resilience of a friendship tested by alienation and by jealousy over a man who seems to offer the promise of escape.
		To read Brookner is to come into contact with a first-rate mind.
		“Brookner is a master of the art of the middle distance and as graceful as a matador when she uses the bright cape of her elegant Jamesian sentences to keep intimacy at bay.” –The Boston Globe
	www.primapublishing.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=1400075300 (383 words)

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