Anita Brookner (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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A distinguished historian of eighteenth and nineteenth century French art and culture, Anita Brookner wrote several books of nonfiction before she began to write novels. Watteau (1968) is an assessment of the early eighteenth century French artist Antoine Watteau. The Genius of the Future, Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the Brothers Goncourt, Huysmans (1971) is a collection of six essays on seven French writers; each writer is considered in the context of his time. The greatest space is given to

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