Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Parks, Tim

Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590178843)

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Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Parks, Tim

Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books

$19.95
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Parks, Tim

Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books

$19.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 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 Thomas Bernhard, 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.

Author: Tim Parks
ISBN-10: 159017884X
ISBN-13: 9781590178843
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2015
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/23/2015
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2015
Library Journal 03/15/2015 pg. 101
Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 4
New York Times Book Review 08/23/2015 pg. 38
By Tim Parks
By Tim Parks
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Tim Parks has written seventeen novels, including Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and most recently, Painting Death. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including Italian Neighbors and Italian Ways. Parks has also translated the works of Alberto Moravia, Giacomo Leopardi, and Niccolò Machiavelli, among others, and he is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in Italy.

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