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Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019 / James Wood.
Van Pelt Library PR6073.O5835 A6 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, James, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Austen, Jane.
- Auster, Paul, 1947-2024.
- Auster, Paul.
- Bellow, Saul.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.
- Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-.
- Erpenbeck, Jenny.
- Ferrante, Elena.
- Garner, Helen, 1942-.
- Garner, Helen.
- Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997.
- Hrabal, Bohumil.
- Kadare, Ismail.
- Krasznahorkai, László.
- Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.
- Levi, Primo.
- Moon, Keith, 1946-1978.
- Moon, Keith.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- Orwell, George.
- Quixote, Don (Fictitious character).
- Quixote.
- Robinson, Marilynne.
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.
- Roth, Joseph.
- Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001.
- Sebald, W. G.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- English essays--20th century.
- English essays.
- English essays--21st century.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 510 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Contents:
- Fun stuff: homage to Keith Moon
- What Chekhov meant by life
- Serious noticing
- Saul Bellow's comic style
- Anna Karenina and characterization
- Joseph Roth's empire of signs
- Paul Auster's shallowness
- Hysterical realism
- Bohumil Hrabal's comic world
- George Orwell's very English revolution
- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness
- Cormac McCarthy's the road
- Reality examined to the point of madness': László Krasznahorkai
- Wounder and wounded
- On not going home
- Other side of silence: rereading W. G. Sebald
- Becoming them
- Don Quixote's old and new testaments
- Dostoevsky's god
- Helen Garner's savage honesty
- All and the if: God and metaphor in Melville
- Elena Ferrante
- Virginia Woolf's Mysticism
- Job existed: Primo Levi
- Marilynne Robinson
- Ismail Kadare
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Packing my father-in-law's library.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 2019 by Vintage, Great Britain, as Serious noticing: selected essays.
- "These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and The New Republic"--Title page verso.
- Contains:
- McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023. Road.
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
- ISBN:
- 9780374261160
- 0374261164
- OCLC:
- 1102159445
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374261160
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