Lewis Percy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Brookner
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1959 to the 1970’s
- Setting: Paris and London
- Principal Characters: Lewis Percy, Grace Percy, Patricia (Tissy) Harper, Mrs. Beatrice (Thea) Harper, Penry (Pen) Douglas, Fanny Douglas, Dr. Ralph Jago
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Education or educators, Paris, London, Heroes or heroism, Morality or morals, Learning or scholarship
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England
Anita Brookner’s novels are noted for their wit and understatement, their literate, romantic heroines, and their nearly Jamesian portrayal of moral scrupulosity. Latecomers (1988) reversed this formula to some extent by offering as protagonists two male figures, Jewish immigrants to England from the war-torn Furope of the late 1930’s. It was a remarkable book and represented a shift in Brookner’s attention from primarily romantic plots to that great theme: the impact of the past on the present. Lewis Percy, as several reviewers have noted, returns to the combination of...
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