A review by kittenscribble
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt

3.0

Literary playfulness. A graduate student, bored of postmodernism, decides to immerse himself in solid facts by writing the biography of a biographer. He quickly drowns himself in bits of tantalizing facts, remnants of another man's life; he must again turn to the real world, and the people (especially the women) in it, to pull himself back out. Beautiful writing, almost dreamlike.