Based on a series of articles written for the Independent on
Sunday, this is an entertaining and enlightening collection of some
50 short essays on the technical devices of fiction and how writers
use them, under such headings as Suspense, Sense of Place, and
Symbolism. Each topic is illustrated with a short excerpt from a
classic or modern work, from Sterne and Dickens to Fay Weldon and
Martin Amis. Lodge uses his insider's knowledge, as an
award-winning novelist as well as a teacher and critic, to reveal
the tricks of the trade to readers and aspiring writers. (Kirkus
UK)
The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and the Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form.
The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction.
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