"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative." - Tamsin Todd, The Washington Post.
(.) These stories are not entirely successful as fairy stories, but as an elegant reflection on the nature of narrative they are a triumph." - Alev Adil, Times Literary Supplement
"Unlike Marina Warner, who sees the fairy story as a space for social disruption, Byatt seems to experience it as an oppressive structure. For all its proliferation of marvels and metaphors, it keeps at least one foot on the ground - a serviceable English foot." - Patricia Craig, The Spectator " The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is a cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas. (.) The conversations between the genie and the scholar are beyond all praise, and the description of their lovemaking is a gem of exuberant metaphor and linguistic restraint." - Nancy Willard, The New York Times Book Review (.) In the title story, Byatt offers us a wonder indeed: she dramatizes both the theoretical aspects of the fairy tale and the living truth of it in the story itself. Instead, the magic of the earlier time is brought into our own. "When Byatt superimposes the fairy-tale style on contemporary material, events in the stories do not hark back to an earlier time. Two of these stories - The Glass Coffin and Gode's Story - were originally published in Byatt's previous novel, Possessionī+ : entertaining and clever, with some very nice touches. Le Djinn dans l'oeil-de-rossignol - France 
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