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Wood, James, 1965- author.
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English essays -- 20th century.
English essays -- 21st century.
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Serious noticing : s...
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Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019 / James Wood.
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Wood, James, 1965- author.
New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Subjects
English essays -- 20th century.
English essays -- 21st century.
Literature -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781250785701 (paperback) :
1250785707 (paperback)
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vi, 510 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
First Picador paperback edition.
Contents:
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.
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