Living by Fiction

Author : Annie Dillard

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 5 January 2000

ISBN : 9780060915445

Price : €17.54

Description

"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to live the life of the mind should read this book. Its elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, its over much too soon." —Los Angeles Times

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillards 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 Carys 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 Dillards vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.

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