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Bedford's life is astonishing - from Germany at the dawn of WWI to post-WWII Italy, she's seen it all, and she knows how to talk about it with a powerful, intoxicating sense of evocation. What is there to say about Sybille Bedford? She's probably one of the the most underrated, brilliant, intelligent writers of the English language of the last century - and Quicksands, her wonderful, fascinating memoir, only confirms that. Quicksands: A Memoir - 2005 - A memoir of the author's life, from her childhood in Berlin to her experiences in postwar Europe. Pleasures and Landscapes: A Traveller's Tales from Europe - a reissue of the above, removing the legal writings, and including two additional travel essays.
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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education - 1989 - a sort of followup to A Legacy, this novel was inspired by the author's experiences living in Italy and France with her motherĪs It Was: Pleasures, Landscapes and Justice - 1990 - a collection of magazine pieces on various trials, including the censorship of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the trial of Jack Ruby, and the Auschwitz trial, as well as pieces on food and travel. The Faces of Justice: A Traveller's report - 1961 - a description of the legal systems of England, Germany, Switzerland, and France.Ī Favourite of the Gods - 1963 - a novel about an American heiress who marries a Roman PrinceĪ Compass Error - 1968 - a sequel to the above, describing the love affairs of the granddaughter of that work's protagonistĪldous Huxley: A biography - 1973 - the standard, authorized biography of Huxley
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The Best We Can Do: (The Trial of Dr Adams) - 1958 - an account of the murder trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams The Sudden View: a Mexican Journey - 1953 - (republished as A Visit to Don Otavio: a Traveller's Tale from Mexico, a travelogue)Ī Legacy: A Novel - 1956 - her first novel, a work inspired by the early life of the author's father, which focuses on the brutality and anti-Semitism in the cadet schools of the German officer class. Julia Neuberger proclaimed her "the finest woman writer of the 20th century" while Bruce Chatwin saw her as "one of the most dazzling practitioners of modern English prose. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. Sybille Bedford, OBE (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer. Look forward to the same crisp, classic packaging for this latest outing. This book, very likely to be Bedford's last (she's 92), will also form the culmination of the Counterpoint reissues of the Bedford backlist. Expect Bedford's Quicksands to be the next to get this royal treatment. In some cases, this reassessment has even worked posthumously-as seen in the attention lavished on Rebecca West's Survivors in Mexico.
Paula Fox, e.g., emerged after a long silence with the NBCC finalist Borrowed Finery and stacks of rave reviews. The past few years the literary world has witnessed a number of spectacular career rebirths. Think of her in the same breath as Shirley Hazzard, Penelope Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, Anita Brookner, and Cynthia Ozick.Īnother chance to rediscover a long-lost great. as her talent would suggest, Bedford ranks with the elder states(wo)men of contemporary literature. Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners."Ĭomparisons. None other than notoriously hard-to-satisfy Bruce Chatwin asserted that "when the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Mrs.
Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).Īcclaim, acclaim, and acclaim.
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