Life and work
Subtitle: writers, readers, and the conversations between them
By: Tim Parks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300215366
Subjects: Fiction; Technique; Authors and readers; Theory; History and criticism
Work titles: Essays
Description: Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns that guide authors in both their writing and their lives. In a series of provocative, incisive, and unflinching essays written over the past decade and collected for the first time here, he reveals how style and content in a novel reflect a whole pattern of communication and positioning in the author's ordinary and daily behaviour. We see how life and work are deeply enmeshed in the work of writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Philip Roth, Julian Barnes, Peter Stamm, and Geoff Dyer, among others.
Notes: Essays.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Charles Dickens --; title: Feodor Dostoevsky : crime or punishment --; title: Thomas Hardy --; title: Anton Chekhov --; title: James Joyce --; title: Samuel Beckett --; title: Georges Simenon --; title: Muriel Spark --; title: Philip Roth --; title: J.M. Coetzee --; title: Julian Barnes --; title: Colm Tóibín --; title: Geoff Dyer --; title: Peter Stamm --; title: Graham Swift --; title: Dave Eggers --; title: Haruki Murakami --; title: Peter Matthiessen --; title: Stieg Larsson --; title: E.L. James.