Title: Living by Fiction
First published: 1982
Description: Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia 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.
Subjects: Fiction, History and criticism, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction, history and criticism, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN3503 .D5 1982