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The Biographer's Tale is a book by A. S. Byatt. The story is about a postgraduate student, Phineas G. Nanson, who decides to write a biography about an obscure biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes.
- A. S. Byatt
- 2001
1 de ago. de 2000 · In The Biographer’s Tale, we meet Phinneas G. Nanson, an undergraduate student who becomes disenchanted with poststructural and postmodern literary theory because of its self-referentiality and lack of connection to the concerete, factual and real world of Facts and Things.
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1 de dic. de 2001 · The Biographer's Tale: A Novel. Paperback – December 1, 2001. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty.
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- 2001
- A. S. Byatt
About The Biographer’s Tale. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty. “Elegant … witty … intelligent.” —The Washington Post
- Paperback
Along the way he comes to rely on two women, one of whom may be the guide he needs out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and...
From the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession" comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing. Tantalizing, witty, and delightfully rueful, this paperback edition is the story of a disenchanted postgraduate student who decides to study "the messiness of real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. 7 illustrations.
Authoring the biography of a famous but elusive biographer, disenchanted postgraduate student Phineas G. Nanson performs frustrating research from Africa to the Arctic while confronting a plethora of obstacles and his own personal demons. Tour.
