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Writers on writing : the best of the Review of Contemporary Fiction / [editor, John O'Brien].
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Review of contemporary fiction ; v. 19, no. 3.
- The Review of contemporary fiction, 0276-0045 ; v. 19, no. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction--20th century.
- Fiction--Collections.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930- (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 197 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Best of the Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Place of Publication:
- Normal, Ill. : Review of Contemporary Fiction, [1999]
- Contents:
- The act of creation and its artifact / Gilbert Sorrentino
- Address to the New York University conference / Robert Pinget
- Some aspects of the short story / Julio Cortázar
- Literature pursued by politics / Juan Goytisolo
- The novel as concept / Camilo José Cela
- Reflections on the novel : address to the colloquium on the New Novel, New York University, October 1982 / Claude Simon
- Introduction to Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs? / B.S. Johnson
- Dangerous words ; Dirty words / Luisa Valenzuela
- For prizewinners / Harry Mathews
- French version / Claude Ollier
- "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" : the publishing scene and American literary art / George Garrett
- A few notes on two of my books / Kathy Acker
- A small biography of The obscene bird of night / José Donoso
- Something to die for / William T. Vollmann
- Of idealism and glory / Osman Lins
- Bad times / Janice Galloway
- Impressions of a paranoid optimist / Mary Caponegro.
- Notes:
- The work is the Fall 1999 issue of "The Review of contemporary fiction" and is the last issue for 1999. It is devoted to essays from some of the editors favorite author's. The unifying theme is 'Writers on Writing'. In each of the essays, the author addresses the aesthetic, cultural, social, political, or technological aspects of fiction and fiction writing.
- Cover title.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1564782220
- 9781564782229
- OCLC:
- 42766065
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