Love that kills: Anita Brookner's revision of the romance in "The rules of engagement"

• Autores: Aránzazu Usandizaga Sáinz
• Localización: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, ISSN 0211-5913, Nº 48, 2004, págs. 89-104
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Rachel Blau du Plessis suggested the need to re-imagine new versions of women's destiny. This paper will analyze Anita Brookner's contribution to such matters. It will discuss Brookner's heroines and concentrate in her last texts. Brookner seems to contradict utopian projections of women's selves and shows the difficult patterns of personal survival. Her heroines' emotional adventures are convincingly fought against their intimate and cultural inheritance. Their struggle and their questionable success seem to me to provide an artistically authentic starting point in the projection of contemporary heroines.