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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 ...
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).
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, född 5 juni 1884 i Pinner, Middlesex, död 27 augusti 1969 i London, var en engelsk författare. Nathalie Sarraute menar i sin teoretiska essäsamling L'Ère du soupçon att Compton-Burnett när essäsamlingen skrevs hade de bästa lösningarna på romanens utmaningar.
1 de abr. de 2020 · Ivy Compton-Burnett’s novels are Downton Abbey for the intelligent If you feel you want bracing, rather than soothing, you might read or reread Ivy Compton-Burnett – if you enjoy her, there are 19 novels to go at.
Ivy Compton-Burnett. Scrittrice britannica nata a Londra, sesta di dodici figli di un noto medico omeopata. Una vita familiare infelice le fornì materiale per i venti romanzi che scrisse, tutti di matrice autobiografica e incentrati sul tema del dispotismo familiare. Premiata e apprezzata da autori di grande prestigio, trascorse un’esistenza ...
So said Ivy Compton-Burnett herself, and she had a point. Her novels are startlingly, even shockingly unlike anyone else’s. If they were a drink, they would be Grappa, that formidable Italian digestif – fierce, harsh and bitter at first sip, intoxicating in a rather unsettling way, but, once you’ve got the taste for the stuff, strangely alluring and moreish, even addictive.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884-1969), Novelist. Sitter in 12 portraits One of the most important and challenging novelists of the period, Compton-Burnett's fiction is distinguished by the use of a bare prose structure that concentrates on dialogue and dispenses with plot and description.
