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The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form

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The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form

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 Gloverâ€™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 operatorâ€™s manual for readers and writers, The Erotics of Restraint extends Gloverâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Biblioasis
Manufacturer Biblioasis
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781771962919
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781771962919
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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