Bernice Rubens
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Standard Name: Rubens, Bernice
Birth Name: Bernice Ruth Reuben
Self-constructed Name: Bernice Ruth Rubens
Married Name: Bernice Ruth Nassauer
was an immensely, steadily prolific later twentieth-century novelist (with a couple of dozen titles, the last published in 2003). She also wrote for the stage, film, and television. A vivid memoir appeared posthumously. She is adept at satiric comedy, which both in early and later work she often achieves by moving out of naturalism into physical impossibility and absurdism. Early works in her fantasy style often employ extreme versions of stereotypically presented Jewish family life; in later works they are more likely to involve psychiatric topics. Several of her novels look at life in institutions (schools, orphanages, old people's homes); a few deal with the sweep of international, multi-generational history.
Timeline
Texts
Rubens, Bernice. A Five Year Sentence. W. H. Allen, 1978.
Rubens, Bernice. “A Little Night Reading: What Bernice Rubens has on her Bedside Table”. Sunday Times, p. Section 9, Culture 40.
Rubens, Bernice. A Solitary Grief. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
Rubens, Bernice. Autobiopsy. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
Rubens, Bernice. Autobiopsy. Abacus, 1994.
Rubens, Bernice. Birds of Passage. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
Rubens, Bernice. Brothers. Delacorte Press, 1983.
Rubens, Bernice. Brothers. Hamish Hamilton, 1983.
Rubens, Bernice. Go Tell the Lemming. Cape, 1973.
Rubens, Bernice. Hijack. Samuel French, 1993.
Rubens, Bernice. I Sent a Letter to My Love. W. H. Allen, 1975.
Rubens, Bernice. I, Dreyfus. Little, Brown, 1999.
Rubens, Bernice. I, Dreyfus. Abacus, 2000.
Rubens, Bernice. Kingdom Come. Hamish Hamilton, 1990.
Rubens, Bernice. Kingdom Come. Abacus, 1991.
Rubens, Bernice. Madame Sousatzka. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962.
Rubens, Bernice. Mate in Three. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1966.
Rubens, Bernice. Mate in Three. Abacus, 1989.
Rubens, Bernice. Milwaukee. Little, Brown, 2001.
Rubens, Bernice. Mother Russia. Chapman, 1992.
Rubens, Bernice. Mr. Wakefield’s Crusade. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
Rubens, Bernice. Nine Lives. Little, Brown, 2002.
Rubens, Bernice. Our Father. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
Rubens, Bernice. Set on Edge. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1960.
Rubens, Bernice. Spring Sonata. W. H. Allen, 1979.