Books: Criticism with dignity Rupert Christiansen enjoys Anita Brookner's cultural essays The Sunday Telegraph London | October 19, 1997| | Copyright 1997 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Soundings

by Anita Brookner

Harvill, pounds 16.99, 214 pp ANITA BROOKNER's detractors brand her fiction airless and sour; her admirers prefer to praise its elegance and intelligence. Readers of this collection of her essays and lectures - largely focused on her scholarly speciality, the culture of 18th- and 19th-century France, and written in counterpoint to her novels over the last 20-odd years - may respond in a similarly divided fashion. As a critic, Professor Brookner displays no empty flamboyance or appetite for controversy. She has too supple and subtle a mind to be a slave to ideology ...

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