The same task of the elusive nature of truth is given to the Postscript where a message will be never delivered. Also human relationships can be summed up as hermeneutic research which calls the very act of knowledge into question and nothing is better proof of the derisory nature of knowledge than the extract in the epigraph which introduces the reader to the question of truthfulness: through Sludge, Browning explores the narrative's inevitable negotiations between truth, fiction, and lies. Countless details scattered throughout the story confirm the predominance of knowing over doing as an infinite number of specific acts all tend in the same direction: the characters never stop meditating on the hidden meaning of the words they read, and the impenetrable signification of the signals they perceive. The letters found by Roland Mitchell in Ash's copy of Vico's Principi di una scienza nuova are the pretext for a " gnoseological " narrative of the search of truth which in fact will be unattainable. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fairytales, extracts from biographies and scholarly accounts, creating a sensuous and utterly delightful novel of ideas and passions.The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the different levels of reading activated by A.S.Byatt's Possession considered as a narrative of interpretation and about interpretation. Its prankish verve monstrous richness of detail a one-woman variety show of literary styles and types." The novel traces a pair of young academics-Roland Michell and Maud Bailey-as they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. The New Yorker dubbed it "more fun to read than The Name of the Rose. On the nature of possession-the lover by the beloved, the biographer by his subject-she is profound," said The Sunday Times (London). "On academic rivalry and obsession, Byatt is delicious. Time magazine calls her "a novelist of dazzling inventiveness." Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990.
Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of our time. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being" and "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A.
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