How to draw a novel / Martín Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solares, Martín, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Cleary, Heather, translator.

Grove Press, publisher.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Cómo dibujar una novela. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--Technique.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

vi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

First Grove Atlantic publication.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.

Summary:

A meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. Shows how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel. The author uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of novels. He considers how writers invent or discover their characters, the importance or unimportance of place, and the myriad shapes the novel may take. An important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.

Contents:

The welcome mat

Doubles cast in shades of night

Into the fog

The novel as automobile

A theory of evolution

Blind and so mysteriously reserved

How to draw a novel

Structure's ghost

A journey around a tale

Novelesque excitement

A method for measuring novelesque excitement

Device with lions

Insults and images

Tool for writing a novel

The character tree

The myth of the perfect novel

Bomb theory, or how to end it all

What lives at the bottom of the lagoon

Once upon a time

My uncle and the tiger. Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected bibliography.

Notes:

"Originally published in the Spanish language as Como dibujar una novela in 2014 by Ediciones Era."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Solares, Martín. How to draw a novel

ISBN:

9780802159304

0802159303

OCLC:

1374092816