Introduction
Rubens, Bernice 1927–
Rubens is a Welsh novelist and documentary filmmaker whose fictive territory is middle-class Jewish family life, her theme, noncommunication. She is "interested in the links between sanity, madness, the ever changing meaning of those terms. I inhabit that limbo, that no fixed abode, loitering there without intent." This interest is reflected in the central position of victims and scapegoats in her work, most notably in the Booker Prize-winning The Elected Member. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28, rev. ed.)
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