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The Erotics of Restraint - Essays on Literary Form (Paperback)
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The Erotics of Restraint - Essays on Literary Form (Paperback)
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List price R373
Loot Price R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
You Save R51 (14%)
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Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of
a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great
Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the
tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas Glover's new
essay collection fuses his long experience as an author with his
love of philosophy and his passion for form. Call it a new kind of
criticism or an operator's manual for readers and writers, The
Erotics of Restraint extends Glover's long and deeply personal
conversation with great books and their authors. With the same
dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his fiction, he
dissects narrative and shows us how and why it works, why we love
it, and how that makes us human. Erudite and obsessively detailed,
inventive, confessional, and cheeky, these essays offer a brilliant
clarity, a respite in an age of doubt. They raise the bar.
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