![]() ![]() She is one of those people who makes me realize and really feel the gaps in my education. But, like I said, favorite author … so I sweated it out. ![]() I hadn’t read a lot of the people she writes about, and she’s extremely into Freud and quotes him at length and I found that pretty arduous. ![]() I read these essays back when the collection first came out, and found many of them tough-going. (Byatt is so obsessed with Matisse that she came out with an entire short story collection called The Matisse Stories. The cover of Passions of the Mind is Henri Matisse’s Jupiter and Leda. ![]() Possession was such a huge deal, that suddenly her earlier novels were re-issued with similar covers to Possession, and other non-fiction works re-appeared as well. This collection of essays, in topics ranging from George Eliot to Toni Morrison, came out in the early 90s, in the wake of the Possession brouhaha. Byatt is one of my favorite writers writing today. NEXT BOOK: Passions of the Mind, a collection of essays by A.S. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. ![]()
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