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Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As...
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Harvill Secker
2014
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| Edition: | 1. publ. in Great Britain |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Summary: | Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As a novelist, translator and critic, Tim Parks, is well-placed to investigate any questions we have about books and reading. In this collection of lively and provocative pieces he talks about what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light |
| Physical Description: | 244 S. 22 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Introduction
ι
Part I
THE WORLD AROUND THE BOOK
Do We Need Stories?
9
Why Finish Books?
15
E-books are for Grown-ups
20
Does Copyright Matter?
24
The Dull New Global Novel
31
Reading It Wrong
35
Why Readers Disagree
40
Where
ľm
Reading From
46
Part
2
THE BOOK IN THE WORLD
What s Wrong with the Nobel?
55
A Game without Rules
60
Most Favoured Nations
66
Writing Adrift in the World
72
Art That Stays Home
78
Writing without Style
85
Literature and Bureaucracy
93
In the Chloroformed Sanctuary
100
Writers into Saints
106
Part
з
THE WRITER S WORLD
The Writer s Job
5
Writing to Win
122
Does Money Make Us Write Better?
129
Fear and Courage
ІЗ5
To Tell and Not to Tell
142
Stupid Questions
I48
The Chattering Mind
15З
Trapped inside the Novel
160
Changing Our Stories
167
Writing to Death
І7З
Part
4
WRITING ACROSS WORLDS
Are You the Tim Parks Who
. . . ?
183
Ugly Americans Abroad
189
Your English Is Showing
196
Learning to Speak American
2O2
In Praise of the Language Police
208
Translating in the Dark
214
Listening for the Jabberwock
22O
In the Wilds of
Leopardi
225
Echoes from the Gloom
232
My Novel, Their Culture
238
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