Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2011
ISBN: 9780099554257
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £12.99
In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2011
ISBN: 9780099554257
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £12.99
Sends the reader back to writers' works (including Mr. Lodge's own) with a renewed appreciation of what makes them tick and why
These essays, so easy in manner, so well-built and informative, offer a fine blend of creative writing and criticism... The essays on writers who have meant most to him as a novelist, notably Graham Greene (on whom nobody has written better) and Joyce, are brilliant
Mr. Lodge's meditations on Joyce, Nabokov and Kingsley Amis, are indeed small gems, the sort of essays you want to underline and commit to memory
It is refreshing to be reminded that those who teach can also do