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Home remedy for black magic4/13/2023 ![]() The very title of the collection sets the tone for its five short stories. This is very much the case with Little Black Book of Stories. 1 Thus Byatt’s “colour vision” (Byatt 1998, 71) is a key factor to uncover the leading patterns of her books. ![]() It all starts with colours, so much so that, for instance, the pivotal figure of Van Gogh in Still Life only became so because she felt the need to use a complementary yellow in a book she thought of as purple. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself” (Burns). She has explained on numerous occasions how a book, whether a novel or a collection of short stories, first shapes itself in her mind through colours: “I like to write about painting because I think visually. 1 “ Still Life started out very dark purple, and then I felt there ought to be yellow, it was the comp (.)ġA.S. Byatt’s interest in painting and colour is well-known and manifest in such eloquent titles as Still Life, The Matisse Stories, “Rose-Coloured Tea Cups”, “Art Work”, “Body Art”.
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