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Originally Posted by Sparrow
If 'Possession' is typical, then I don't think Byatt can portray convincing male characters.
That was another aspect of my irritation with it.
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Her women characters aren't qualitatively different from the men, so I don't think it's that. But they aren't 'people-next-door' types either, it's not people you and me meet - or not people we think we meet. They're literary 'characters' - and for me - perhaps more interesting. They have a certain meaning and point in the story.
'Possession' isn't completely typical of Byatt. It' probably one of the more directly accessible of her books.