True stories : and other essays /
Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between st...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2017].
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between storytelling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xviii, 336 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300230055 0300230052 |