by Anita Brookner · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417007348
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At forty, Dr. Weiss understood that literature had ruined her life. Thus begins this novel by Anita Brookner, which introduces us to Ruth Weiss, an intelligent and lonely university professor specializing in Balzac's female characters. Through her story, Brookner explores the contradiction between idealized aspirations and the prosaic reality of life, weaving a lucid, ironic, and tender tale about the search for meaning and disillusionment. With an elegant and subtle style, the author immerses us in the psychological climate of a displaced, absurdly meticulous, and crisis-ridden heroine.
Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
