num_pages: 192
description: Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, GarcÍa Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. 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 in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
language: English
title: Living by Fiction
titlecomplete: Living by Fiction
genres: Crafts, Essays, Literary Criticism, Writing, Philosophy, Criticism, Nonfiction, Literature, Books About Books, Memoir
ratings_count: 990
publisher: Harpercollins Publisher