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Author: Tim Parks (Professor of Literature and Translation, Professor of Literature and Translation, IULM University, Milan)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 19.50cm
Weight: 0.220kg
ISBN: 9780198739593
ISBN 10: 0198739591
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 16 July 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
an unmissable book ... The Novel: A Survival Skill, Parks' journal through the coercive emotional strategies of Joyce, Hardy, Dickens and others, is biographical and psychoanalytic criticism of the best kind. Edmund Gordon, TLS books of the year 2015 for all its big ideas, this book is written in a highly accessible, conversational way, and, as we might expect, with a lot of personality. A Hermit's Progress A fascinating book which beautifully connects up our motives for reading and writing novels with our deepest psychological impulses. Alain De Botton
A fascinating book which beautifully connects up our motives for reading and writing novels with our deepest psychological impulses. Alain De Botton
an unmissable book ... The Novel: A Survival Skill, Parks' journal through the coercive emotional strategies of Joyce, Hardy, Dickens and others, is biographical and psychoanalytic criticism of the best kind. * Edmund Gordon, TLS books of the year 2015 * for all its big ideas, this book is written in a highly accessible, conversational way, and, as we might expect, with a lot of personality. * A Hermit's Progress * A fascinating book which beautifully connects up our motives for reading and writing novels with our deepest psychological impulses. * Alain De Botton *
Tim Parks is a wildly inconsistent writer, but every now and again he produces an unmissable book, and he Novel: A Survival Skill, his journal through the coercive emotional strategies of Joyce, Hardy, Dickens and others, is biographical and psychoanalytic criticism of the best kind. Edmund Gordon, TLS books of the year 2015 for all its big ideas, this book is written in a highly accessible, conversational way, and, as we might expect, with a lot of personality. A Hermit's Progress A fascinating book which beautifully connects up our motives for reading and writing novels with our deepest psychological impulses. Alain De Botton
Author Information
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, and fifteen novels, including the Booker short-listed Europa, and most recently Painting Death, he has translated works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Machiavelli, and Leopardi. While running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University, Milan, he writes regularly for the LRB and the NYRB. His non-fiction works include, Translating Style, A Literary Approach to Translation Problems, Medici Money, an account of the relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century, and four accounts of life in contemporary Italy, Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education, A Season with Verona and Italian Ways, on and off the rails from Milan to Palermo.
