The Erotics of Restraint : Essays on Literary Form
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1771962917
ISBN-13
9781771962919
Publisher
Biblioasis
Imprint
Biblioasis
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 3rd, 2019
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
264 grams
Dimensions
13.40 x 20.90 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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A practical and illuminating collection of essays on writing and reading fiction, focusing on the relationship between form and theme.
Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas Glover’s new essay collection fuses his long experience as an author with his love of philosophy and his passion for form. Call it a new kind of criticism or an operator’s manual for readers and writers, The Erotics of Restraint extends Glover’s long and deeply personal conversation with great books and their authors. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his fiction, he dissects narrative and shows us how and why it works, why we love it, and how that makes us human. Erudite and obsessively detailed, inventive, confessional, and cheeky, these essays offer a brilliant clarity, a respite in an age of doubt. They raise the bar.
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