James Wood: The Irresponsible Self

Cover: 9781844130979 | The Irresponsible Self | James Wood | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2005

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When James Wood's first collection of essays The Broken Estate was published in 1999 the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Wood's latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh for example) and a 'continental' tragic-comedy which he sees as real universal and quixotic.

A particularly acerbic and very funny essay - which has been widely celebrated - deals with Zadie Smith Rushdie Pynchon and DeLillo; its title 'Hysterical Realism' has already entered the phrasebook of literary language.

With its brilliant studies of Shakespeare Dickens and Dostoevsky Naipaul Pritchett and Bellow The Irresponsible Self offers more exhilarating despatches from one of our finest living critics.

Über den Autor

James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works, which has been translated into thirteen languages.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781844130979
ISBN-10:	1844130975
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wood, James
Hersteller:	Pimlico
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 135 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	James Wood
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2005
Gewicht:	0,44 kg