The nearest thing to life, James Wood
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The nearest thing to life, James Wood
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
individual biography
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The nearest thing to life
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
891001470
Responsibility statement
James Wood
Series statement
Mandel lectures
Summary
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works--among others, Chekhov's story "The Kiss, " W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower
Table of contents
Why? -- Serious noticing -- Using everything -- Secular homelessness
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