Anita Brookner

La novela más emblemática de Anita Brookner, una de las grandes escritoras inglesas del siglo xx. «A veces pensaba que el tiempo que pasaba urdiendo las tramas de sus novelas había sido una preparaci

«A sus cuarenta años, la doctora Weiss comprendió que la literaturale había destrozado la vida.» Ruth Weiss es una profesora universitariainteligente y solitaria que se ha especializado en los person

Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed ...

The latecomers are Hartmann and Fibich, brought over to England as children to escape Nazi Germany, now living close to each other in London in their 60s, and still friends. Yet they could not be more different, each having adopted different strategies to reconcile themselves with their past and to cope with an uncertain world.

''He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.'' Paul Sturgis is retired and lives alone in South Kensington. He walks alone and dines alone, taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers. His only acquaintance is a widowed cousin whom he visits on Sundays. Unable to make sense of his solitary nature, and fearing death among strangers, he wonders whether at last he might be ready for companionship. But a chance meeting with an old girlfriend and an encounter in Venice with a recently divorced younger woman compel Sturgis to decide how (and with whom) he will spend the rest of his days

Una historia de familia ( A family romance, 1993) se centra en el contraste entre la vida de la narradora y protagonista, Jane, nacida en los años sesenta, que aspira ante todo a realizarse como ser humano, y su tia Dolly, nacida en 1922, y educada para la vida social y para agradar a los hombres en pos del matrimonio. Pese a tal disparidad generacional de educacion, un reconocimiento y una comprension mutua terminan por unir a estas dos mujeres, cuyo relato se situa principalmente en Londres, pero tambien en Paris y Bruselas.