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The Found Voice - Writers' Beginnings (Hardcover)
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The Found Voice - Writers' Beginnings (Hardcover)
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The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary
biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted-to
understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative
voice of a unique artist. The essays which explore this hidden
process of the writer writing focus on some of the major writers of
recent times, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, William
Trevor, and Mavis Gallant. The focus of investigation is a single
work by each author, and many of them identify the book in which
this turning point was reached. The writers have a somewhat
different sense of what the voice is, 'a true voice', 'the voice in
the mind', 'the writing voice', etc., yet all of them accept the
phrase 'finding a voice' as a decisive and necessary process
towards a unique style and vision, their raison d'etre as artists.
These essays allow each one to define his or her sense of the
process of writing, and their style is exploratory. Nevertheless,
certain patterns emerge, of migration and cultural displacement, of
linguistic self-consciousness, of memory and a reimagining of the
first home, of absorbing and rejecting mentors and models.
Crucially, the essays rely not just on what led up to the moment of
creation but on a sense of the career that emerged from it. Most of
the writers have written retrospectively in memoirs, interviews or
essays about the pivotal work and its foundational significance.
They are the best witnesses to the process, although their silence
or their commentary is understood in terms of the many strands of
the narrative that each essay presents.
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