Tim Parks – Life and Work (EPUB)
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Title: Life and Work
Author: Tim Parks
Language: English
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300216738
Subjects: Reference, Literature, Writing, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory – General & Miscellaneous
Author: Tim Parks
Language: English
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300216738
Subjects: Reference, Literature, Writing, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory – General & Miscellaneous
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.
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…
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