The naive and the sentimental novelist
By: Orhan Pamuk
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780674050761
Description: Orhan Pamuk examines the relationship between author and reader, discussing the distinction between "naive" and "sentimental" writing, and considering the fundamental elements of a novel--character, plot, time, setting--that tie a reader to a fictional world.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What our minds do when we read novels; title: Mr. Pamuk, did all this really happen to you?; title: Literary character, plot, time; title: Words, pictures, objects; title: Museums and novels; title: The center.