How Fiction Works [Audiobook] download free by James Wood
- Listen audiobook: How Fiction Works
- Author: James Wood
- Release date: 2009/3/11
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781845950934
- Rating: 9.85 of 10
- Votes: 144
- Review by: Lochlan Crittenden
- Review rating: 9.71 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 2H37M32S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-08
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, OPUS, MPEG4, WAV, MP3 (compression RAR, ZIP, ALZ, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M23S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint?In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions. Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carre, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial Times
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literary Theory, Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides, Literary Essays
- Download servers: Mediafire, MEGA, SendMyWay, Microsoft OneDrive, BitShare, 1fichier, Torrent. Compressed in RAR, ZIP, ALZ, XZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.84 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x13mm
- Weight: 149g
- Printed by: VINTAGE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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