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"Possession" is the best English novel of the late 20th century and, undoubtedly, the best work of Antonia Byatt. However, the word "novel" can be applied to this amazing prose very conditionally. What is before us? A detective novel of ideas? A women's Gothic novel in a modern performance? A chivalric novel in a new way? All together - and something more, a deeply modern thing that has absorbed many traditions and at the same time is marked by the seal of genuine inspiration and innovation. In it, the mystery of the English spirit and English greatness shimmers with different facets.
But above all, this book is about living people (even if some of them have long since died), whose images descend upon the reader like an obsession; about love, a rebellious and frantic passion that conquers time and death; about the aspirations of the spirit and the flesh, earthly and sublime, obvious and hidden; and about the divine Plan that can be seen in the tragic and comic patterns of human destiny... The characters of this bizarre story make their way through the mirror labyrinth of the plot into the mysterious past: the inhabitants of the era of people - into the era of heroes, and the inhabitants of the era of heroes - into the era of gods. Two elements reign on these pages - the element of the mind, the brilliance of thought, almost sensual, and the element of subtle eroticism born from the contact of the rough matter of life with the delicate fabrics of fantasy.
"Possession" occupies a unique place in the history of modern literature and, with its deep national originality, belongs to the whole world. Now, a quarter of a century after the publication of Byatt's masterpiece, the Booker Prize awarded in 1990 seems not enough. Just as, perhaps, the Order of the British Empire awarded to the author a little later is not enough...
But above all, this book is about living people (even if some of them have long since died), whose images descend upon the reader like an obsession; about love, a rebellious and frantic passion that conquers time and death; about the aspirations of the spirit and the flesh, earthly and sublime, obvious and hidden; and about the divine Plan that can be seen in the tragic and comic patterns of human destiny... The characters of this bizarre story make their way through the mirror labyrinth of the plot into the mysterious past: the inhabitants of the era of people - into the era of heroes, and the inhabitants of the era of heroes - into the era of gods. Two elements reign on these pages - the element of the mind, the brilliance of thought, almost sensual, and the element of subtle eroticism born from the contact of the rough matter of life with the delicate fabrics of fantasy.
"Possession" occupies a unique place in the history of modern literature and, with its deep national originality, belongs to the whole world. Now, a quarter of a century after the publication of Byatt's masterpiece, the Booker Prize awarded in 1990 seems not enough. Just as, perhaps, the Order of the British Empire awarded to the author a little later is not enough...
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