The Biographer's Tale by A S Byatt

Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biographers, Psychological Fiction, Bildungsromans, General, Psychological, Coming of Age, Biography as a Literary Form, Young Men, Fiction
ISBN: 9780375413421
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2000-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Naturally, I was intrigued by the connection of Scholes Destry-Scholes with a suitcase full of authentic things. I did not form any very clear impression of Miss or Mrs. Vera Alphage. I wrote back to Willesden in a businesslike way, saying that I had formed the project of writing a biography of Scholes Destry-Scholes, having been very impressed by his own work on Elmer Bole, but that I had been finding it very difficult to discover any information, and was therefore delighted to have the possibility of meeting a relative, or seeing any archival material at all. I had formed the impression, from her style, that she was a comfortable, slightly naïve housewife in her late forties. I saw her plump and cheerful. Matter of fact. She replied, however, that she could only see me in the evenings, when she got back from work, which could sometimes be quite late. I replied—always by post, neither of us vouchsafed a telephone number—with my own timetable of work and research time. So I ended up travelling to Willesden at about eight o’clock of a summer evening, forewarned that Ms. Alphage “would not call a few index cards an archive exactly.”

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