Annie Dillard explores why fiction matters, revealing modern thought through literary giants like Nabokov and Borges.
Owned
No reviews yet
Owned
Annie Dillard explores why fiction matters, revealing modern thought through literary giants like Nabokov and Borges.
About
Details
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm wi...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Violence & gore
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Profanity
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Substance use
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Religious content
AI
Minor references to meaning and experience with possible spiritual undertones.
Magic & witchcraft
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Occult / demonology
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
AI
Minor cultural commentary through literary analysis.
Self-harm / suicide
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Abuse & suffering
AI
No evidence found in available sources.
Other
AI
No information found.