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Where I'm Reading From - Tim Parks

By Tim Parks

Release Date: 2015-05-12

Genre: Literary Criticism

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Why do we need fiction? Why do books need  to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of  the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where Iā€™m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical readingā€”from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many othersā€”to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose.

In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where Iā€™m Reading From examines the rise of the ā€œinternationalā€ novel and the disappearance of ā€œnationalā€ literary styles; how market forces shape ā€œseriousā€ fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writersā€™ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writersā€”and readersā€”can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.

Where I'm Reading From - Tim Parks

By Tim Parks

Release Date: 2015-05-12

Genre: Literary Criticism

(0 ratings)
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Why do we need fiction? Why do books need  to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of  the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where Iā€™m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical readingā€”from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many othersā€”to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose.

In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where Iā€™m Reading From examines the rise of the ā€œinternationalā€ novel and the disappearance of ā€œnationalā€ literary styles; how market forces shape ā€œseriousā€ fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writersā€™ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writersā€”and readersā€”can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.

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