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Lives in Writing

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A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life-writing, and contributes several of his own. The subjects include celebrated modern British writers such as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and Alan Bennett, and two major figures from the past, Anthony Trollope and H.G.Wells. Lodge examines connections between the style and the man in the diaries of the playwright Simon Gray and the cultural criticism of Terry Eagleton, and recalls how his own literary career was entwined with that of his friend Malcolm Bradbury. All except one of the subjects (Princess Diana) are or were themselves professionally 'in writing', making this collection a kind of casebook of the splendours and miseries of authorship. In a final essay Lodge describes the genesis and compositional method of his recent novel about H.G.Wells, A Man of Parts, and engages with the critical controversies that have been provoked by the increasing popularity of narrative and dramatic writing that combines fact and fiction. Drawing on David Lodge's long experience as a novelist and critic, Lives in Writing is a fascinating study of the interface between life and literature.

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Authors David Lodge
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 08.01.2015
 
EAN 9780099587767
ISBN 978-0-09-958776-7
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
Series VINTAGE BOOKS
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies

Literary essays

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