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Frank Kermode

Frank Kermode’s books include The Sense of an Ending and The Uses of Error.

From the London Review dated 6 October 2005

Here she is

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith

What makes this novel a bit unusual is that it is conceived as an act of homage to E.M. Forster, ‘to whom’, the author writes, ‘all my fiction is indebted, one way or the other’. The acknowledgment is obscure and ‘one way or the other’ could, but probably doesn’t, mean ‘both by attraction and repulsion’. To take as a model Howards End, a novel published in 1910, need not be a mere game or stunt, but it does tend to steal the limelight of critical attention. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon by Frank Kermode, edited by Robert Alter (2004)
  • The Age of Shakespeare (2004)
  • Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002 (2003)
  • Pleasing Myself: From ‘Beowulf’ to Philip Roth (2001)
  • Shakespeare's Language (2000)
  • Collected Poetry and Prose by Wallace Stevens, edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (1997)
  • Not Entitled: A Memoir (1996)
  • The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967)
  • The Romantic Image (1957)  Buy this book

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