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- PublisherMcPherson & Co
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0914232827
- ISBN 13 9780914232827
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "Not so long ago the death of the novel was variously declared: as an art form, as a socially-instructive tool, and as an irrelevant icon of personalism amidst depersonalized mass-consumerism. Perhaps no one has rebutted the provincial doomsayers with greater verve, style, and intellect than Paul West does in this enlivening book of essays drawn from twenty years of reviewing a panoply of novels from around the world. SHEER FICTION argues that the novel is dead only in the too-familiar nineteenth-century forms regularly pandered by cynical proponents of the status quo. [] From Virginia Woolf's unsung Orlando to the magical realism (beginning in 1928) of the Spanish language writers Andrade, Marquez, and Vargas Llosa; from Hermann Broch and Christa Wolf to the Americans Walter Abish and Guy Davenport; from the French symbolist Lautreamont to Blaise Cendrars and Andre Schwarz-Bart; from the principal European languages, in short, West uncovers major developments in the twentieth-century novel. [] More than a mere collection of essays, SHEER FICTION proposes an understanding of how language and 'reality' interlock, and how the novel incorporates the dimensions of imaginative, scientific, and philosophical consciousness. This book is designed for the reader of novels more than for the specialist, but for both it offers an intriguing and encouraging assessment of present day fiction." [jacket copy] "West, no mean novelist himself (Rat Man of Paris, among others) is in love with the infinite expressive possibilities of the novel, and this anthology of his critical writings is an eloquent accounting of his passion. In six longer essays and nearly 40 reviews from various sources he makes his tastes abundantly clear. He is bored by the conventional well-made novel, and seeks out adventurous, mind-expanding work, from Virginia Woolf through the Latin American magic realists and beyond, to many of the major names of contemporary European fiction. (William Gass, Guy Davenport, Walter Abish and Evan Connell are the only Americans found in his pantheon.) It's a limited view of fiction, but West pursues it with great zeal, a refreshing dash in the writing (compared to his, most literary criticism is a genteel snooze) and an eager sense of discovery. It's almost impossible not to be lured to read some of his cherished, little-known prizes: Osman Lins of Brazil, Juan Goytisolo of Spain, for instance; impossible, too, not to realize how provincial much American fiction reviewing is by comparison."--Publishers Weekly. "This kind of infectious enthusiasm is rare to the point of non-existence among modern critics. In some of the longer pieces on writing in general, West has the leeway to show off some of his own prose effects, and they are, as expected, fresh and amusing. . . Sheer pleasure."--Kirkus Reviews. Fine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a minimal-design, bright-as-new jacket. Seller Inventory # RUB3043
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