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Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books

Autor Tim Parks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 mai 2015
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 novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many others to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose.
In thirty-seven interlocking essays, "Where I m Reading From" examines the rise of the international novel and the disappearance of national literary styles; how market forces shape serious fiction; the unintended 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."
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ISBN-13: 9781590178843
ISBN-10: 159017884X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

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Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? This collection of provocative pieces tells what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light.