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Going to See the Elephant
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Going to See the Elephant

Pieces of a Writing Life
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
EUR18,50

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"No writer I've ever read is as good as George Garrett when it comes to showing me both sides at the same instant. Fact and factoid, respect and derision, truth and falsehood, saint and sinner, art and dross, heads and tails, all show their bold faces in these stern yet cheerful pieces about literary triumphs and quasi-literary follies. There is much here for the younger writer trying to learn the way, but there is also plenty for us to chew on who thought we were veterans." -Henry Taylor
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-881515-42-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum22.12.2021
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 140 mm, Höhe 216 mm, Dicke 13 mm
Gewicht306 g
Artikel-Nr.17903769
KatalogLibri
Datenquelle-Nr.A2734454
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Jane Austen is a writer ruined by TV adaptation (before you all start writing letters, I know there are good ones). Despite two centuries of inclusion in the canon, there are still many (and I am afraid they are mostly men) who dismiss her as 'frivolous', 'saccharine' or 'unserious'. This means it is only worth continuing to discuss Austen with people if they either don't use any of the aforementioned adjectives or if, by the latter, they mean, she is one of the funniest writers in English (full stop). If you don't know this already, the first page of 'Persuasion' will convince you, and then her biting, satirical commentary on Georgian society will show you that far from reverently writing about it out of admiration, she irreverently lambasts it and its eccentric snobbish hierarchy (people who write her off will probably say John Oliver likes Trump because both wear suits). If you don't believe me (and even if you do), read her (and start with 'Persuasion') before you watch her.
Whoa. What a devastating read! A dystopia in the darkest sense of the word - without a happy ending whatsoever (that's how I interpret it at least).
A must-read classic.

You'll never think of rats the same way again!

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Author of thirty-two books and editor or co-editor of nineteen others, GEORGE GARRETT recently retired from the University of Virginia after a forty-year teaching career. Among his many honors are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry; fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry; the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife of fifty years.