A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

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<b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><b> PICKED BY THE<i> SUNDAY TIMES</i>, <i>GUARDIAN</i>, <i>INDEPENDENT</i>, <i>IRISH TIMES</i>, <i>SPECTATOR</i>,<i> TLS</i>,<i> NEW STATESMAN</i>,<i> MAIL ON SUNDAY</i>,<i> I PAPER</i>, <i>PROSPECT</i>,<i> REVEW31 </i>AND <i>EVENING STANDARD</i> AS A BOOK OF 2021</b><b> 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' <i>Guardian</i> Summer Reading Picks 2021 </b><b>'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment' </b><b>Tessa Hadley</b><b>________________</b><b> From the</b><i> New York Times-</i><b>bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of</b><i> Lincoln in the Bardo</i><b> and </b><i>Tenth of December</i><b> comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.</b> 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 <i>A Swim in a Pond in the Rain</i>, 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 res

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526624246

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 128 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK