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A new collection of essays by a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author and critic shares insights into the relationship of a writer's life and work, literary language, history, culture, biography as a form of literature, and other topics. 10,000 first printing.
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"Reading these essays is like watching a glass blower at work over the flame, seeing his forms emerge at times amusing trinkets, at times vessels of beauty and purpose. . . . The vases of Mr. Gass's making (something like extruded golden bowls with nearly undetectable flaws) would be in such a thoughtful essay as 'The Story of the State of Nature, ' in which he mounts, in clear expository fashion, an entire history of narrative." Maureen Howard, New York Times Book Review"
"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . These pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas, Beckett and the Bauhaus; the exacting demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Committee's 'banal and hokey' choices in fiction; and the abyss between the moral viewpoints expressed in works of art and the lives of their creators. Gass's deeply felt essays . . . are quotable, flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read." Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"These essays showcase precision intellectual workmanship, displaying intricate multifaceted models of how writing and thinking relate to life." Kirkus Reviews"
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"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . These pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas, Beckett and the Bauhaus; the exacting demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Committee's 'banal and hokey' choices in fiction; and the abyss between the moral viewpoints expressed in works of art and the lives of their creators. Gass's deeply felt essays . . . are quotable, flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read." Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"These essays showcase precision intellectual workmanship, displaying intricate multifaceted models of how writing and thinking relate to life." Kirkus Reviews"
William Gass has been a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University in Indiana and at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is Director of the International Writers Center.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679446621
- ISBN 13 9780679446620
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages354
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