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18 de mar. de 2021 · Ivy Compton-Burnett has always provoked strong reactions. Along with much critical success, she consistently elicited shock or dismay with each successive novel. Our new edition of Compton-Burnett’s A House and Its Head is ‘[t]he merriest tale of human depravity you will ever read‘ according to Hilary Mantel.
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) is the author of nineteen novels. Her fiction is witty, but its compressed and well-mannered dialogue reveals terrifying glimpses of the depth to which human nature can descend. To appreciate her novels the reader must accept certain conventions—a story told entirely in dialogue, circumscribed in time and place ...
29 de ago. de 2012 · Ivy Compton-Burnett’s novels have been variously compared to Greek tragedy, Henry James with a dash of Oscar Wilde, and many others. This suggests a sort of critical fumbling rather than serious indebtedness or affinity. The fact is that there is simply no one like her, demanding and rewarding in equal measure.
While Ivy Compton-Burnett was reading classics at Royal Holloway College (1902–06), her favourite brother, Guy, died of pneumonia (1905). Her tyrannical mother then compelled her to act as governess to her younger sisters at Hove, a period of deep frustration during which Compton-Burnett wrote her first novel, Dolores (1911).
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969) was one of twentieth-century England’s most original and admired writers. The seventh of thirteen children, she was raised in Richmond and Hove and studied Classics at Royal Holloway College. Her family was struck by repeated disasters starting with the death of her father in 1901; Compton-Burnett eventually ...
14 de mai. de 2020 · Il capofamiglia di Ivy Compton-Burnett (Fazi editore) è la storia della famiglia Edgewort guidata appunto dal capofamiglia Duncan, un uomo dispotico e indecifrabile. Questo è il primo libro che leggo di Compton-Butnett e non mi aspettavo una scrittura così teatrale e così particolare. La trama all’apparenza è semplicissima: la storia di ...
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett est une romancière britannique. Romancière de la première moitié du XXe siècle, Ivy Compton-Burnett fut un écrivain très apprécié par ses pairs, depuis Angus Wilson jusqu'à Nathalie Sarraute ou, plus près de nous, Angelo Rinaldi et Hector Bianciotti. Elle est l'aînée d'une fratrie de 7 enfants.
