Bibliograph

Serious noticing, selected essays, 1997-2019, James Wood

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Serious noticing, selected essays, 1997-2019, James Wood

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Serious noticing

Oclc number

1102159445

Responsibility statement

James Wood

Sub title

selected essays, 1997-2019

Table Of Contents

The fun stuff: homage to Keith Moon -- What Chekhov meant by life -- Serious noticing -- Saul Bellow's comic style -- Anna Karenina and characterisation -- 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 -- The 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 -- The 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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