Bücher von John Bayley

With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral beauty of youth and the sobering reality of what it means to grow old, but its ultimate power is that Bayley discovers great hope and joy in his celebration of Iris's life and their love. In its grasp of life's frailty and its portrayal of one of the great literary romances of this century, Elegy for Iris is a mesmerizing work of art that will be read for generations.

The last month or so of the life of novelist Iris Murdoch, the wife of the author, provides the framework for this biography. Within this structure the author enters into extensive memories of the past.

Presents a debate on the persistence of Romanticism. Rejecting the Bloomian notion of anxious revisionism, this book argues that various kinds of influences, inheritances, and indebtedness exist between well-known twentieth-century authors and canonical Romantic writers.

In this first critical assessment in English of Pushkin's writing, the author examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition.

This 1981 book suggests an insightful approach to Hardy as a poet and novelist. With the novels in particular it concentrates not so much on ideas and attitudes as on the texture of the writing, and on the crucial importance in it between one kind of exposition and another.