Conversations with Shelby Foote - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0878053867 ISBN 13 : 9780878053865

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 1989

Synopsis

Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of history. In his development, the merging of these special talents has made Foote almost unique in the history of American literature, for few other great modern authors have proved to be master storytellers in both fiction and historical narrative.

In Conversations with Shelby Foote, this novelist-historian expresses penetrating and often humorous remarks about major modern writers as well as about the classical writers of fiction, plays, poetry, and historical narrative. In one interview Foote explains how Homer's Iliad and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past were his chief models for writing his history of the Civil War.

Foote recounts also what it was like to grow up in a small Mississippi town in the first half of the twentieth century and tells how his observations of African Americans and whites of all classes

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William C. Carter is editor of Conversations with Shelby Foote, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0878053867
• ISBN 13: 9780878053865
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Carter William C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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