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Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060915447

ISBN-139780060915445

eBay Product ID (ePID)16895

Product Key Features

Book TitleLiving by Fiction

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicModern / 20th Century, General, Books & Reading

Publication Year2000

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorAnnie Dillard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN81-047882

ReviewsLiving by Fiction is a stimulating book, one of those in which quality of thought and felicity of prose seem consequences of one another., Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon.

SynopsisLiving by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garc a M rquez, 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., "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." -- Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. 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 she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself., "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." --Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. 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 she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.