What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel
create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a
film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book,
Turkey's Nobel Prize winner explores the art of writing, and takes us
into the worlds of the reader and the writer, revealing their intimate
connections.
Pamuk draws on Friedrich Schiller's famous distinction between "naive"
poets-who write spontaneously, serenely, unselfconsciously-and
"sentimental" poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning,
and alive to the artifice of the written word. Harking back to his
reading of the beloved novels of his youth and ranging through the
work of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Flaubert,
Proust, Mann, and Naipaul, he explores the oscillation between the
naive and the reflective, and the search for an equilibrium, that lie
at the center the novelist's craft.
Orhan Pamuk ponders the novel's visual and sensual power-its ability
to conjure landscapes so vivid they can make the here-and-now fade
away. In the course of this exploration, he delves into the secrets of
reading and writing, and considers the elements of character, plot,
time and setting that compose the "sweet illusion" of the fictional
world.
Like Umberto Eco's _Six Walks in the Fictional Woods_ and Milan
Kundera's _The Art of the Novel_, this is a perceptive book by one of
the modern masters of the art, a title anyone who has known the
pleasure of becoming immersed in a novel will enjoy, and learn from.
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ISBN
9780571276042
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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