by A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author), A S Byatt (Author)
In Passions of the Mind, A S Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her own ficiton, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of twentieth century women writers. Fascinated by the coincidence of the symbolic and real which she finds in her favourite writers - Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wallace Stevens - A S Byatt also celebrates this quality in the sun and shados of Van Gogh's painting.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 19 Aug 1993
ISBN 10: 0099301245
ISBN 13: 9780099301240
Book Overview: 'Erudite, magisterial and often moving, her essays are fascinating both as enthusiasms, and as a kind of codicil to her development as a novelist' - Independent