A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN : FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN : FROM THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021This book is a delight, and its about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment Tessa Hadley________________From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why its more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, Were going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesnt fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of artnamely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it? He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A

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ISBN: 978-1-5266-2424-6
BarCode: 9781526624246
Εκδότης: Bloomsbury
Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 04-2022
Εξώφυλλο: Paperback
Σελίδες: 432
Δραστηριότητα: Ξενόγλωσσα
Οικογένεια: Ξενόγλωσσα Λογοτεχνικά
Ομάδα: Αγγλικά

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