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Why Read - Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 (Hardcover, Main)
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Why Read - Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 (Hardcover, Main)
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Discovery Miles 5 920
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'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment
he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New
York From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working
today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his
generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia
of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and
literature. Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his
typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl,
to the Australian outback and to literary forms past and future.
With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable
eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell and Conrad.
He writes movingly on W.G. Sebald's childhood in Germany and
provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs's
Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also
expands on his regular column in Literary Hub to ask readers how,
what and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world.
Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of
furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of
Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self's trademark
intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humour infuse every
piece.
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