How Fiction Works

ISBN-13: 9781845950934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

James Wood

Opis

In the tradition of E.M. Forster's 'Aspects of the Novel' and Milan Kundera's 'The Art of the Novel', 'How Fiction Works' is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style.

Recenzje

This compelling essay shows just how deeply, sensitively, imaginatively and joyfully he reads Scotland on Sunday

O autorze

James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works, which has been translated into thirteen languages.