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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Erudite and wise musings on fiction and its relationship to myth, fairy tale, and history. These essays show the practical concerns of a practicing novelist, who while being aware of trendier currents in academic criticism is slightly (refreshingly?) suspicious of them. The first two chapters, which explore the approaches that recent British novelists have taken to historical fiction (the first covering WWII and its aftermath, the second a more general span), are so compelling, both as overview and in its treatment of individual works, that I found myself again and again noting titles and authors to seek out. The fourth talks about the influence of evolutionary thinking on fiction. Oddly, I found the more personal fifth essay to be the least interesting. The last essays are fascinating discussions of the persistence of traditional tales, myths, and fairy tale tropes in contemporary fiction, with a heavy emphasis on Europe. These began life as independent essays and there a disconcerting repetitions of ideas, phrases, and sentences that perhaps should have be edit out for this compilation. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own translation of historical fact into fiction, or exploring the recent European revival of interest in myth, folklore, and fairytale, Byatt's abiding concern here is with the interplay of fiction and history. Her essays amount to an eloquent and often moving meditation on the commitment to historical narrative and storytelling that she shares with many of her British and European contemporaries. With copious illustration and abundant insights into writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Burgess, William Golding, Muriel Spark, Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, and Pat Barker, On Histories and Stories is an oblique defense of the art Byatt practices and a map of the complex affiliations of British and European narrative since 1945. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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