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The novel is the second in a sequence of four books, preceded by The Virgin in the Garden (1978) and succeeded by Babel Tower (1996) and A Whistling Woman (2002). [1] [2] [3] In the interval between publication of Still Life and Babel Tower, Byatt published Possession: A Romance, her best-selling novel, which won the 1990 Booker Prize. [4]
Babel Tower is a novel by A. S. Byatt, published by Chatto & Windus in 1996. It was the third part in a tetralogy , [ 1 ] following The Virgin in the Garden (1978) and Still Life (1985) and preceding A Whistling Woman (2002).
The woodcut depicts the Tower of Babel, a biblical story about people attempting to build a tower to reach God, which is found in Genesis 11:9. Although Escher later dismissed his works before 1935 as of little or no value as they were "for the most part merely practice exercises," [1] some of them, including the Tower of Babel, chart the development of his interest in perspective and unusual ...
In the web-based game Forge of Empires the Tower of Babel is an available "Great Building". Argentinian novelist Jorge Luis Borges wrote a story called "The Library of Babel". The Tower of Babel appears as an important location in the Babylonian story arc of the Japanese shōjo manga Crest of the Royal Family.
The Tower of Babel in the books is not intended to be the tower of biblical fame. Bancroft has explained that the setting is "more of an alternate universe than an alternate history. The Tower is not part of our timeline or this reality". [1] Bancroft took the name Senlin from the 1920 poem "Morning Song of Senlin" by Conrad Aiken. [2]
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The short story details the creation of the Tower of Babel. [2] The narrator notes how many different people, from various nationalities had a hand in the construction. The massive scale of the project creates so many logistical and societal complications that it becomes impossible for civilization to ever achieve the original plan, or to even seriously believe in the plan.