Bowen, Elizabeth (Vol. 1) - Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–
Bowen, Elizabeth 1899–
Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, Miss Bowen is best known for her novel The Death of the Heart. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-18.)
Elizabeth Bowen has often been called a novelist of 'sensibility', a term which, if it means anything at all, is apt too often to imply the exploitation of the writer's own particular temperament at the expense of those other qualities which go to the making of a good novelist. To apply this designation to Miss Bowen is to underestimate, by implication, the breadth of her talent…. Miss Bowen uses her sensibility (which is without question exquisite) as an instrument, merely, for producing the particular effects at which she is aiming in her novels and stories. (p. 5)
Apart … from the visual approach, what other aspects of her work remain most clearly in one's memory? Plot? Decidedly no: Miss Bowen's plots are, for the most part, of an extreme...
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