Joseph Epstein: The Novel, Who Needs It?
The Novel, Who Needs It?
Buch
- Encounter Books,USA, 08/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781641773058
- Bestellnummer: 10981843
- Umfang: 152 Seiten
- Gewicht: 326 g
- Maße: 306 x 148 mm
- Stärke: 19 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.8.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"This is a book about the importance of fiction not alone as an aesthetic phenomenon but as a means of knowledge and discovery. The book argues that superior fiction is able to rise to levels of understanding-of worldly events, of human relationships, of human nature itself-unavailable to other disciplines or forms of learning. It goes on to argue that especially in our day, a time when so many various ideas are afloat, fiction is of the greatest significance. To make its argument the book considers many of the great novels of the western world; it also sets out the importance of fiction to many of the key intellectuals of the past century who were not themselves novelists or even literary men or women. It also discusses the fate of fiction in the current day"--Biografie
Joseph Epstein, geboren 1937, lebt als Essayist, Erzähler und Verleger in Chicago. Seine Texte zeugen von seiner Faszination fürs Alltägliche, für seltsame Trends und kleine Vergnügungen, zahlreiche Essays sind berühmten oder vergessenen Autoren gewidmet, in seinen Kurzgeschichten erzählt er von jüdischem Leben in Chicago. Joseph Epstein
The Novel, Who Needs It?
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