The title “Bring Up the Bodies” comes from a line spoken in its final pages. Only after this declaration are “the bodies” given names: “Deliver, that is, the accused men, by name Weston, Brereton, Smeaton and Norris, to Westminster Hall for trial.”
Schlagwort-Archive: Hilary Mantel
Artikel: Hilary Mantel’s sequel survives as big names miss out on Booker Prize
The British novelist Hilary Mantel, one of the darlings of historical fiction, is in the running for a second Booker Prize, for the follow up to the novel that won her the first award. The 12-strong longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction included “Bring up the Bodies”.
Porträt: Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel zerschreibt alle Zweifel an der Möglichkeit des historischen Romans. Noch aus der modernen Perspektive gewinnt sie geschichtliche Macht. Zum sechzigsten Geburtstag der Schriftstellerin.
Rezension: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
The story of the world is littered with the corpses of clever, charismatic women. To make your mark pretty consistently over the past 3,500 years, as a female of the species you have had to be extra special.
Rezension: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
Hilary Mantel belongs to the same generation, roughly, as her compatriots Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan, and is every bit their equal. Yet until “Wolf Hall” won the Man Booker Prize in 2009, she was much less well known in Britain.
Rezensionen: Hilary Mantel, Don Winslow u. a.
Summer reading used to be so easy. No vampires. No handcuffs. Deshalb stellt Janet Maslin in der New York Times fluffige Sommerbücher vor – darunter: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies” und Don Winslow: “Kings of Cool”.
Rezension: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
Hilary Mantel’s novel about the Tudor political puppet-master supremo Thomas Cromwell, “Wolf Hall,” winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for fiction, was so richly packed with character and action that it was bound to burst its banks.
Rezension: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
The sequel to “Wolf Hall” is a striking account of one of English history’s most shocking episodes. But it can be hard to navigate such austere prose. Anne Boleyn’s story is not an unfamiliar one, but it continues to tempt chroniclers because of its uncertain outline.
Rezension und Interview: Hilary Mantel
Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII is a place readers have visited many times – but in the hands of Hilary Mantel, it becomes territory both new and unsettling. In “Bring Up the Bodies” Mantel weaves a richly textured world.
Rezension: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
“Bring Up the Bodies” is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do. Mantel makes bold not with form but with the very material that brings most readers to novels in the first place: our imaginative identification with fictional characters.
Artikel: Hilary Mantel on Bring up the Bodies: the quicksilver queen
“There’s something of the Joker about this man.” Deep in an armchair, hands clasped in her lap and with pale blue eyes fixed on the middle distance, Hilary Mantel considers her recreation of Thomas Cromwell.
Across the literary pages: Hilary Mantel: “Bring Up the Bodies”
Hilary Mantel dominates the bank holiday books pages. “Bring Up The Bodies”, the sequel to the Booker winning “Wolf Hall”, will be published this Thursday, and the acclaim has already begun.