Kate Briggs (2)
Autore di This Little Art
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- unknown
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- United Kingdom
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
Somerset, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- Fine Arts professor, Piet Zwart Institute
translator
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 230
- Popolarità
- #97,994
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 11
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
The Long Form is technically fiction but often veers toward essay. In this, it resembles a book delivered that morning to Helen’s door, interrupting a coveted moment of calm. In the gaps of time Helen can find to read it, we learn that Fielding’s novel also moves between forms and that it, too, addresses the subject of child-rearing, at least for a few chapters. But, as Helen muses, whereas Fielding’s protagonist arrives as an orphan without history, speeds through infanthood, and becomes a young hero, in reality, babies do come from somewhere, and they exert their own wills before they can walk or speak, even as they depend on a cast of care-giving others. I found the style worked for a time, but it made it difficult to maintain interest in the whole book.… (altro)