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How to draw a novel / Martín Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary.

by Solares, Martín, 1970- author.

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New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.

Fiction -- History and criticism.

Fiction -- Technique.

9780802159304 (hardcover) :

0802159303 (hardcover)

vi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

First Grove Atlantic publication.

The welcome mat -- Doubles cast in shades of night -- Into the fog -- The novel as automobile -- A theory of evolution -- Blind and so mysteriously reserved -- How to draw a novel -- Structure's ghost -- A journey around a tale -- Novelesque excitement -- A method for measuring novelesque excitement -- Device with lions -- Insults and images -- Tool for writing a novel -- The character tree -- The myth of the perfect novel -- Bomb theory, or how to end it all -- What lives at the bottom of the lagoon -- Once upon a time -- My uncle and the tiger. Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.

A meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. Shows how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel. The author uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of novels. He considers how writers invent or discover their characters, the importance or unimportance of place, and the myriad shapes the novel may take. An important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.

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