Anita Brookner

Naissance 16 Jul 1928 · Décès 10 Mar 2016

Originaire de Herne Hill, England, United Kingdom · Nationalité : United Kingdom · Écrit de la fiction

Citations

“Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.”
A Friend From EnglandEn anglais
“And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic.”
A Closed EyeEn anglais
“In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions.”
Making Things BetterEn anglais

Les livres de Anita Brookner dans l'ordre

Les livres de Anita Brookner dans l'ordre de parution, de Jacques-Louis David (1967) à Leaving Home (2004).