THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN,
INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON
SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK
OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic
companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021 'This book is a
delight, and it's about delight too. How necessary, at our
particular moment' Tessa Hadley ________________ From the New York
Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the
Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what
makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves
- and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders
has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA
students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain,
he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he
and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired
with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol,
the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in
how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these
turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going
to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world,
made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully
endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of
art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we
supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to
accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how
might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet
accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why
we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock
virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders
reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training
oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in
a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great
writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and
of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection
possible.
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