Volume 48, Number 8 · May 17, 2001
What Happened to the Hippopotamus's Wife?
By John Bayley
The Biographer's Tale
A.S. Byatt
Knopf, 305 pp., $24.00
On Histories and Stories
A.S. Byatt
Harvard University Press,196 pp., $22.95
Announcing this in an essay called 'Forefathers' from her essay selection On Histories and Stories, A.S. Byatt goes on strongly to disagree, at least with the first half of the proposition. We should write about the past, even if we have to make it up for ourselves, even if history has become for us today a form of fiction:
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