Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. As such a reference will be made to the innumerable allusions and intertextuality of other texts, both past and contemporary. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Fiction - 576 pages. Possession in all its manifestations physical, spiritual, emotional is the focus of A S Byatt’s 1990 Booker winning novel. The book is exemplary in representing the tenets of metafiction and postmodernistic handling of the artistic material. Subsumed under this main rubric are many topics such as the pretensions and even absurdity of the academic interests, the exigencies of criticism and writing biographies, the relation between the past and the present and above all the author’s oblique and sometime overt irony and sarcasm of the secondariness of the whole critical enterprise. Byatt’s Possession (1990).The author labels this novel as ‘romance’ and indeed it is deservedly so since the main line of action in the book centers on an ardent love affair going on between two academics and their desperate and painstaking attempts to secure a position in the competitive world of the academy, a point the novel is at pains to unravel and finally fulfill. 'The book was thick and black and covered with dust.' It is not a coincidence that the first two words of this remarkable novel are, 'the book.' Possession is a book about books, about the study and love of literature and the intricate obsession with the lives of literary figures shared by academics, historians, and the randomly curious public. The present paper is an attempt to explore the multiple-layered structure of A.
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