The Novel
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the business of writing and reading.
Écrivains et littératureSéries
Cette série plonge dans le monde captivant des créateurs et de leurs œuvres littéraires. Elle explore les vies, les inspirations et les parcours souvent tumultueux des auteurs qui ont façonné notre paysage littéraire. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à un aperçu approfondi du processus créatif et des destins de ceux qui nous ont apporté des histoires mémorables.
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Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the internationally acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over a lifetime of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Woolf, Lawrence, and Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Jonathan Franzen, Peter Stamm, and many others—to overturn many of our long-held assumptions about literature and its purpose. In thirty-eight interlocking essays, Where I’m Reading From examines the rise of the “global” novel and the disappearance of literary styles that do not travel; the changing vocation of the writer today; the increasingly paradoxical effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writers’ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writers—and readers—can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.