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“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.
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Publisher : Harper Perennial
Publication date : July 20, 1988
Edition : Revised
Language : English
Print length : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0060915447
ISBN-13 : 978-0060915445
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.43 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,289 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #73 in 20th Century Literary Criticism (Books) #84 in Literary History & Criticism Reference #112 in Women Author Literary Criticism
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