
Review: The Anniversary – Stephanie Bishop (Hachette)Īuthor J.B. These ideas are at the core of Stephanie Bishop’s latest novel The Anniversary, central to its commentary on the creation of art and its potential to have traumatic effect on the artist’s life. At the same time, it recognises that “direct or phenomenal reference to the world means, paradoxically, the production of a fiction”. Read more: Ian McEwan's Lessons, his most autobiographical novel, is a new experiment in vulnerability Creative synchronicityĬaruth’s example describes the synchronicity inherent in the artistic creation. One cannot create beauty without the other.

But separate the puppet and the puppeteer and the beauty is lost.
