Serious noticing selected essays, 1997-2019 Wood, James 1965- creator author. text essay Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays. Essays. nyu 2020 2019 First American edition. monographic eng print vi, 510 pages ; 22 cm Fun stuff: homage to Keith Moon -- What Chekhov meant by life -- Serious noticing -- Saul Bellow's comic style -- Anna Karenina and characterization -- Joseph Roth's empire of signs -- Paul Auster's shallowness -- Hysterical realism -- Bohumil Hrabal's comic world -- George Orwell's very English revolution -- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness -- Cormac McCarthy's the road -- Reality examined to the point of madness': László Krasznahorkai -- Wounder and wounded -- On not going home -- Other side of silence: rereading W. G. Sebald -- Becoming them -- Don Quixote's old and new testaments -- Dostoevsky's god -- Helen Garner's savage honesty -- All and the if: God and metaphor in Melville -- Elena Ferrante -- Virginia Woolf's Mysticism -- Job existed: Primo Levi -- Marilynne Robinson -- Ismail Kadare -- Jenny Erpenbeck -- Packing my father-in-law's library. James Wood. Originally published in 2019 by Vintage, Great Britain, as Serious noticing: selected essays. "These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and The New Republic"--Title page verso. Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Auster, Paul 1947- Bellow, Saul Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 Erpenbeck, Jenny 1967- Ferrante, Elena Garner, Helen 1942- Hrabal, Bohumil 1914-1997 Kadare, Ismail Krasznahorkai, László Levi, Primo 1919-1987 Moon, Keith 1946-1978 Orwell, George 1903-1950 Don (Fictitious character) Quixote Robinson, Marilynne Roth, Joseph 1894-1939 Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg) 1944-2001 Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941 English essays 20th century English essays 21st century Literature History and criticism English essays Literature 1900-2099 fast PR6073.O5835 A6 2020 PR6123.O527 A6 2020 824.92 Road McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo, graf 1828-1910 9780374261160 0374261164 YDX 190524 20250308175638.9 in00004147765 eng