Living by Fiction

Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's 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 Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.

המשפט הראשון: Many contemporaries write a fiction intended to achieve traditional kinds of excellence.

שנה

1982

שפה

English

הוצאה

Harper Perennial

מהדורות

6

עמודים

192

ISBN

9780060915445

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata