Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic - Couverture rigide

Krystal, Arthur

 
9780199782406: Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic
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ISBN 10 : 0199782407 ISBN 13 : 9780199782406
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2011

Synopsis

"I never think except when I sit down to write." - Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it may seem that books are becoming less essential and that a revolution in sensibility is taking place, the essays of Arthur Krystal suggest otherwise. Companionable without being chummy, engaged without being didactic, erudite without being stuffy, he demonstrates that literature, even in the digital age, remains the truest expression of the human condition.

Covering subjects as diverse as aphorisms, dueling, the night, and the 1960s, the essays gathered here offer the common reader uncommon pleasure. In prose that is both vibrant and elegant, Krystal negotiates among myriad subjects-from historical writing as exemplified by Jacques Barzun to the art of screenwriting as not so happily represented by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His cardinal rule as a writer? William Hazlitt's "Confound it, man, don't be insipid." No fear of that. Except When I Write is thoughtful in the most joyful sense-brimming with ideas in order to give us the flow and cadence of someone actually thinking.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arthur Krystal has written essays and book reviews for the New Yorker, Harpers, the American Scholar, the Washington Post Book World, and other places. He is the author of two collections of essays and two edited collections.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199782407
ISBN 13 
9780199782406
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
196
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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