How fiction works /

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction, an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, James, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
Edition:Second Picador edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Narrating
  • Flaubert and modern narrative
  • Flaubert and the rise of the Flaneur
  • Detail
  • Character
  • A brief history of consciousness
  • Form
  • Sympathy and complexity
  • Language
  • Dialogue
  • Truth, convention, realism.