
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 I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thom...
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books; 1st Edition edition (May 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781590178843
ISBN-13: 978-1590178843
ASIN: 159017884X
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Some of these essays I've read before in the NY Times. Often, I don't agree with him but still no one is bringing up the topic of the world of books and it's a topic we should discuss. I did learn a great deal about the Nobel Prize for Literature w...
, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many others—to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose.In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where I’m Reading From examines the rise of the “international” novel and the disappearance of “national” literary styles; how market forces shape “serious” fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writers’ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writers—and readers—can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.