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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
The Biographer's Tale: A Novel. A. S. Byatt. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 4, 2001 - Fiction - 320 pages. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel...
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
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.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Set in the insular world of postmodern literary theory, where pasty-faced graduate students prate about Freudian dynamics, The Biographer's Tale brings to life Phineas G. Nanson, a fledgling academic in dogged pursuit of an obscure, dandified biographer named Scholes-Destry-Scholes.
- A. S. Byatt
