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Opętanie - A.S. Byatt
Opętanie
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Prawdziwa uczta intelektualna! Roland Mitchell, niedoceniany i ledwo wiążący koniec z końcem literaturoznawca, zajmuje się naukowo twórczością XIX-wiecznego poety, Randolpha Asha. Między stronicami jednego z zakurzonych i pożółkłych woluminów, należących niegdyś do autora, badacz znajduje... show more
Prawdziwa uczta intelektualna! Roland Mitchell, niedoceniany i ledwo wiążący koniec z końcem literaturoznawca, zajmuje się naukowo twórczością XIX-wiecznego poety, Randolpha Asha. Między stronicami jednego z zakurzonych i pożółkłych woluminów, należących niegdyś do autora, badacz znajduje rękopisy listów miłosnych, których adresatką bynajmniej nie była żona poety... Zagadkową kobietą rzucającą zupełnie nowe światło na biografię Asha okazuje się młoda poetka, Christabel La Motte, nieznana szerszym kręgom odbiorców. Jedną z badaczek jej twórczości jest Maud Bailey, jak się wkrótce okazuje, praprawnuczka siostrzenicy poetki. Oboje - zarówno Mitchell, jak i Bailey - zmuszeni nagle do współpracy, traktują się wzajemnie z dużą dozą dystansu, nieufności, a wręcz wrogości, ale fascynująca tajemnica mobilizuje ich do wspólnych poszukiwań...
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788376484631 (837648463X)
Publisher: Prószyński i S-ka
Edition language: Polski
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Abandoned by user
Abandoned by user rated it
5.0 Possession by A.S. Byatt
I don't even know where to begin with this book. I bought a used copy from Abebooks because it's on my Round 2 Classics Club list, and I've been meaning to reread it. I read it for the first time decades ago, around the time that it won the Booker Prize. I remember really loving it when I first read...
Major Leser
Major Leser rated it
3.0 Possession
3.8 stars really for minor imperfections in the whole 'detective' plot but it's still a dazzling novel for readers written by a passionate reader. I liked the French Lieutenant's Woman better (even though on the whole it's a less polished novel). Can someone write a properly introspective, feminist...
Electric Library
Electric Library rated it
3.5 Review | Possession, A. S. Byatt | 3.5 Stars
A. S. Byatt’s Possession is a deeply peculiar book. It won the Booker Prize when it was published in 1990, and as the Booker judges and I tend to have similar taste and the blurb intrigued me, I decided to give this one a go. How to describe Possession? Possession is what you might get if Dan Brow...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
5.0 Possession
This book is indulgent. In its language, plot, characters, it was thick with it.But I liked it, really really liked it. Sometimes I like to read a book that doesn't so much draw you into it, but instead oozes into your life. It wasn't that I became preoccupied with the story or the characters, I'd r...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
4.0 Possession
I did ultimately love this book, but it took me over half its length to warm up to it. I enjoy literate love stories, the mixing of genres, literary allusions and pastiches, and this book provides all of the above. This is a literary mystery as well as a contemporary and a historical romance: two co...
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