Anita Brookner Knihy

Hrdinka příběhu, situovaného do luxusního švýcarského hotelu, tráví čas konvencemi vynuceného exilu hledáním skutečných hodnot a vztahů

Jean-Antoine Watteau (10. říjen 1684, Valenciennes – 18. červenec 1721, Nogent-sur-Marne) byl francouzský malíř, je považovaný za prvního z mistrů rokoka. Přesný den narození neznáme, 10. říjen 1684 je dnem křtu. Osobitá studie představuje znamenitého rokokového "malíře galantních slavností", oprošťuje obraz jeho života od legend a naznačuje, že jeho obvyklá charakteristika je jen dílčím zachycením neobyčejných schopností tohoto umělce, jejichž nápověď je patrna v jeho vrcholných a posledních pracích. K ní se druží výběr z kritických mínění jeho současníků i pozdějších spisovatelů a komentář k jednotlivým reprodukcím, který je zasvěceným průvodcem po historických i uměleckých souvislostech všech 6 černobílých a 45 barevných vyobrazení.

A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. They met at school and forty years later can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their gradual coming to terms with the emotional gaps in their lives.

Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered.

Modest and reliable throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty, an uncertainnty compounded by the death of his friend, Putnam. However his life will alter dramatically with the arrival of the invasive and mercenary Katy Gibb.

"Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Heather. Yet when Heather seems poised to make an unsuitable romantic decision, Rachel decides to speak out and intervene, causing an unwitting and devastating insight."--Provided by publisher.

This text contains a male protagonist in the form of a young solicitor, his mother, a loveless marriage, and holidays on the Swiss border.

Mild and self-effacing, Paul and Henrietta Manning are ill-prepared for the interuptions into their lives of Dolly, widow of Henrietta's brother Hugo. Dolly's ways are idiosyncratic, yet she is an object of fascination and dread to her relatives, especially her niece, Jane.

From the author of HOTEL DU LAC and ALTERED STATES, a novel which explores the themes of loneliness, friendship, fate and opportunity, in which a woman, forced into early retirement, longs to be rescued by the ideal man.