Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them - Couverture rigide

Parks, Tim

 
9780300215366: Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300215363 ISBN 13 : 9780300215366
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, and their readers

Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives.

In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behavior. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others. Parks further shows us how readers' reactions to these writers and their works are inevitably connected to these communicative patterns, establishing a relationship that goes far beyond aesthetic appreciation.

This original and daring collection takes us into the psychology of some of our greatest writers and challenges us to see with more clarity how our lives become entangled with theirs through our reading of their novels.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tim Parks is the author of fifteen novels, including Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, four acclaimed memoirs, and numerous works of nonfiction. He lives in Milan, Italy.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300215363
ISBN 13 
9780300215366
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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