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Living by Fiction

By Annie Dillard

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Living by Fiction

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"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." —Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism Living by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to—people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
1988-09-01
Publication Date:
1988-07-20
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0060915447
ISBN13:
9780060915445
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
152 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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