Anita Brookner (1928–2016)
Auteur van Hotel du Lac
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Anita Brookner was born in London, England on July 16, 1928. She received a BA in history from King's College London in 1949 and a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1953. She went on to lecture in art at Reading University and the Courtauld Institute, where she toon meer specialized in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art. She became the first woman to be named as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge University in 1967. Her first novel, A Start in Life, was published in 1981. Some of her other works include The Bay of Angels, The Next Big Thing, The Rules of Engagement, Latecomers, Leaving Home, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Look at Me, and Strangers. Hotel du Lac won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted for television in 1986. She has also written scholarly works about Jacques Louis David, Jean Baptiste Greuze, and Jean-Antoine Watteau. She died on March 10, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Courtesy Roberta Rood.
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- Gangbare naam
- Brookner, Anita
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-07-16
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2016-03-10
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Herne Hill, London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Opleiding
- James Allen's Girls School, UK
King's College, London (BA|1949)
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (Ph.D|1953)
École du Louvre - Beroepen
- art historian
university professor
novelist - Organisaties
- Courtauld Institute of Art
University of London
University of Cambridge
Reading University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1990)
University of London (Fellow, King's College)
Booker Prize for Fiction (1984) - Agent
- A. M. Heath & Co
- Korte biografie
- Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.
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Anita Brookner in Virago Modern Classics (augustus 2013)
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Anita Brookner ended her writing career with the absolute glorious At the Hairdressers, the only short story she wrote and which has never been published in print but is only available in ebook format.
It feels to me that Brookner put her love of writing, her talent, and all the topics she addressed over and over again in her novels and compressed them into this short story. Her compassion for her main protagonist, the typical lonely Brookner woman which she herself probably was too, shines through in every sentence she dedicates to her, who is in this story an 80 years old woman. The protagonist sheds all her bitterness, her frustration and unhappiness and Brookner pulls her one more time into the spotlight which is this time not dim and grey, but golden.
And finally! The Brookner woman finds redemption and finds it in herself to step out of her discomfort, propelled forward by the most unlikely character you would have expected.
Beautiful and cathartic, this final gift from Anita Brookner to her readers and I feel, to herself.… (meer)
It feels to me that Brookner put her love of writing, her talent, and all the topics she addressed over and over again in her novels and compressed them into this short story. Her compassion for her main protagonist, the typical lonely Brookner woman which she herself probably was too, shines through in every sentence she dedicates to her, who is in this story an 80 years old woman. The protagonist sheds all her bitterness, her frustration and unhappiness and Brookner pulls her one more time into the spotlight which is this time not dim and grey, but golden.
And finally! The Brookner woman finds redemption and finds it in herself to step out of her discomfort, propelled forward by the most unlikely character you would have expected.
Beautiful and cathartic, this final gift from Anita Brookner to her readers and I feel, to herself.… (meer)
This second-last of her novels was to me her most boring and pointless one. All the Brookner tropes were in it: the lonely woman, the inheritance, the buying of a flat, the detached friendships, all the assumptions about other people, the almost relationships, Paris.
Sadly though, this time she failed to add any new direction or insight, it was just the same old. And I found her main protagonist unsympathetic, which didn’t help.
Luckily there’s always Brookner’s glorious writing style that makes even her lesser books enjoyable enough to read.… (meer)
Sadly though, this time she failed to add any new direction or insight, it was just the same old. And I found her main protagonist unsympathetic, which didn’t help.
Luckily there’s always Brookner’s glorious writing style that makes even her lesser books enjoyable enough to read.… (meer)
The Brookner Woman who we have come to know intimately over the course of so many novels was there in every book right from the start. Here she is not. But in the middle of the story, after a terrible thing has happened, we see her, during a nightly walk through London, become the Brookner Woman, being born before our eyes. It was a pivotal moment. I have been reading her oeuvre in publication order and to come upon this scene in one of her very last novels was a wonderful reading experience.
All Brookner’s topics, both the good ones and the annoyingly exasperating ones (feminism, Anita 🙄!) are in here.… (meer)
All Brookner’s topics, both the good ones and the annoyingly exasperating ones (feminism, Anita 🙄!) are in here.… (meer)
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In her final novels Brookner’s characters seem to live in a frozen state, they are in limbo, not being able to get themselves into action and put their lives back on track. It feels they have almost no desire to lift themselves out of their miserable state. And it irritated me.
Brookner’s strong side was her splendid and immaculate writing style. She was a master of prose and a joy to read for any reader of literature. Her weak point however was her lack of imagination as a writer that resulted in an endless repetition of the same topic over and over again. I wished she had approached her subjects from more angles or in different genres maybe now and then.… (meer)