Come funzionano i romanzi. Breve storia delle tecniche narrative per lettori e scrittori

“When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk about character I am really talking about the real, Leggi tutto

For 75 pages this was all clang clang clang goes the trolley ding ding ding goes the bell but then it turned a sharp corner and I think I done got throwed off the bus. Ow! As it rattled off without me I was left to think carefully about what I’m doing when I read a novel (aside from avoiding the int Leggi tutto

Critics often get a bad reputation, and likely deservingly so. I often reflect on a quote by Macedonio Fernández that a critic knows nothing of what perfect literature is , but only what it is not and, especially while writing on Goodreads, am constantly haunted by Susan Sontag's Against Interpretati Leggi tutto

Γουντ, you’re so good, you’re so good, you’re so good, baby you’re so good… ! Τι φοβερό βιβλίο ήταν αυτό. Νομίζω πως αυτή την περίοδο όλος ο ντουνιάς διαβάζει αυτό το βιβλίο, μπήκα κι εγώ στο πλήθος υποκύπτοντας για άλλη μια φορά στο hype, αλλά χωρίς ούτε λίγο να το μετανιώσω γιατί το βιβλίο αξίζει π Leggi tutto

A verymost entertaining and informative book about books and how writers make them from words placed in different orders. Split into handy chapters but written as one lengthy essay with numerical subheadings, Wood teaches us things from Flaubert, James, Joyce, Foster Wallace and other masters and mi Leggi tutto

I kind of hate reading books of this sort as they leave me with a heightened awareness of style, character, rhythm, etc. that makes it difficult to read average or sub-par fiction. Of course, the benefit of reading books like this is that I do cultivate a more discriminatory taste so that I read onl Leggi tutto