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Sto caricando le informazioni... Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them (originale 2006; edizione 2006)di Francine Prose
Informazioni sull'operaReading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them di Francine Prose (2006)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This just flat out isn't a good book. So many of the excerpts Prose uses, her explanations of them make it seem as if she and I had read completely different passages. This might be fun if you are a relative newbie to understanding fiction, but say if it was your undergraduate major, I would definitely say skip it. Some interesting ideas in here, but the credibility is eroded by an annoying tic. Here it is: I'm going to guess that at some point in the manuscript process, an editor asked Francine Prose if she could diversify the writers she examines in the text, and that ooh the request just bugged her so much! So she digs in her heels on examples only from white writers – AND makes a bunch of little remarks about it. It's a loss for her and the reader – both in the opportunity to read great writers, and in these super cringey comments defending 'the canon' as her generation defined it. In the end, it erodes the credibility of what she says. If she's so wrong about this, is she wrong altogether about what makes good writing? nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I also am a musician, and I know plenty of musicians that pay attention to the same sort of steps--lines, riffs, vox, drum beat--all of which is inspired by previous songs that I pay attention to the parts of them.
This book has helped me refresh my love for literature, and I know, given the other reviews, that there are other points that I'll have to learn as well. ( )