The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A Literature, Fiction, Fairy Tales book. I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me.""You honor me,"...
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor."A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous."--Boston Globe"Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt...
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- ISBN: 9780307483874 / 307483878
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I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me.""You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do. A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye // One of you needs food,' said the Old Woman, 'and three of you need healing.'So the Princess sat down to good soup, and fresh bread, and fruit tart with clotted cream and a mug of sharp cider, and the Old Woman put the creatures on the table, and healed them in her way. Her way was to make them tell the story of their hurts, and as they told, she applied ointments and drops with tiny feathery brushes and little bone pins ... A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye // Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy....
I'm torn in writing this review. I adored first four of the five fairy stories in A. S. Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye": limpid lambent language and the twisting satisfaction of fairy plotlines, so familiar, yet surprising. True almost all of the four had elements which I could critique, like loose ends and jumpy plots... Its a collection of 5 fairy stories, although that being said, this is the author who got the award of Number One Partypooper when she snubbed adults who like Harry Potter because its so simplistic and the motifs so obvious and the magic so un-numinous. Fair enough, but please. Antonia, we know youre rivals with your author-sister,... 3.5/5I like Byatt, I like how she writes and I've always felt awe for her capacity of writing fairytales. This book has some fairytale stories, some invented, some from other books such as Angels and Insects, so they were familiar to me. And there's also a longer tale about a professor specialised in tales and narratology, Gillian,...
