AS Byatt and the freedom to think

English writer and critic AS Byatt who died on 16th November, aged 87, won the Booker Prize in 1990 for her most widely read and translated novel, Possession. Rather, it has to do with what becomes of one’s mind and emotions as they encounter her peculiar array of characters.” The Potter family saga continues in Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman as Frederica Potter moves from school to university, and then to a toxic domesticity. He would be angry, but we would talk.” A similar politics of gender and identity is at work in The Matisse Stories, which comprises three pieces of short fiction inspired by the French painter’s works. Then, through The Matisse Stories, Byatt makes the reader think deeply of both, colours that come into being and the makings of an individual’s conscience. “Through The Matisse Stories, Byatt makes the reader think deeply of both, colours that come into being and the makings of an individual’s conscience.” Reading Possession, I feel a freedom to think.