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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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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
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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- A. S. Byatt
The biographer's tale. by. Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Biography as a literary form, Biographers, Young men. Publisher. New York : A.A. Knopf.
It tells the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted young graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of "real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. For what could be more real than biography, the "art of things, of arranged facts"?
EXCERPT. The Biographer's Tale. By A. S. BYATT. Knopf. Read the Review. I made my decision, abruptly, in the middle of one of Gareth Butcher's famous theoretical seminars. He was quoting...
