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A collection of essays by award-winning author William Gass that explore the nature and value of writing and the books that arise from a deep commitment to the word.
"These twenty-five essays speak to the nature and value of writing and to the books that result from a deep commitment to the word. Here is Gass on Rilke and Gertrude Stein; on friends such as Stanley Elkin, Robert Coover, and William Gaddis; and on a company of 'healthy dissidents,'...
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"Hix offers readings of Gass's works, from the early books, Omensetter's Luck and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, to his later The Tunnel and Cartesian Sonata. Hix identifies the continuous presence of psychological, metaphysical, and ethical themes, including the lingering effect on adults of childhood hurts, the results of being "trapped" in language, and the consequences of hatred. While agreeing with critics who label Gass's novels and...
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McCaffery argues that these writers belong to an international avant-garde tradition -- metafiction -- which examine fictional systems, how they are created and the way in which reality is transformed by and filtered through narrative assumptions. Tracing the development of these insights in modern thought, he shows how they led to antirealistic experiments in European and Latin American fiction and finally to the flowering of metafiction on American...
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