Possessione by A.S. Byatt
A Romance
Two contemporary literary scholars uncover a trove of secret correspondence between two nineteenth-century poets and, as they piece together manuscripts, poems and marginalia across England and France, they reconstruct a passionate, clandestine relationship whose discovery reshapes their own lives and desires. The story interweaves letters, poems and narrative strands to create a literary detective tale that is as much about scholarly rivalry, the ethics of interpretation and the nature of authorship as it is about love and obsession. Witty, erudite and formally inventive, it examines how texts bind people across time and how the past continues to possess the present.
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- 1990
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- British
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- English
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