tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post7903891419172661626..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: being many flavoured and subtleUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-89471396083423014952010-06-03T11:03:21.449+10:002010-06-03T11:03:21.449+10:00More than once I've seen her described as Jame...More than once I've seen her described as Jamesian, as in Henry, and it took me a while to work out why someone would call her that, because she doesn't write like James, her sentences aren't like his, and she doesn't circle an emotion gingerly, as he does. I wonder if it's because her huge dramas take place invisibly, inside the concealed world of a person, and her heroisms take place in secret, and are often negative heroisms, performed by people who feel that the integrity of their personality has to be maintained through renunciation.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-22194026694978443352010-06-01T18:43:04.822+10:002010-06-01T18:43:04.822+10:00Reading this has reminded me how very much I like ...Reading this has reminded me how very much I like Anita Brookner's writing. I love the quiet texture of her work, and I love her representations of women in all their complexity. Her books make me look at middle-aged women differently...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com