![]() ![]() Her new novel, a staggeringly detailed and charged re-creation of the period between the end of the 19th century and the first world war, overflows with people attempting to define their responsibilities, whether to fulfil them or to evade them with those in pursuit of enlightenment or seeking to manipulate it and with some simply attempting to unearth who they are and what they should do to survive.įor Philip Warren, the boy whose discovery in the store-rooms of the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) opens the book, survival is a matter of making good his escape from life in the Potteries and finding, somehow, a way of unravelling and realising his semi-articulated desire to "make something". ![]() T he moral seriousness of AS Byatt's fiction derives much from her concept of responsibility and responsibility, for her, is most importantly the business of marshalling and applying one's intellect to every area of one's life. ![]()
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