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How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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List price R335
Loot Price R270
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You Save R65 (19%)
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Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the
strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books)
in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. What do we mean when
we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a
'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism
realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint? In the
tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan
Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the
main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail,
characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first
full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of
our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series
of fundamental questions. Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix
Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carre, and his book is both a
study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative
history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up
two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical
work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone
interested in what happens on the page. 'Should find a place on
every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of
criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the
ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' Financial
Times
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