The Novel by Tim Parks

The Novel by Tim Parks

The Novel: A Survival Skill radically reevaluates traditional literary criticism offering an exciting account of what is really at stake in the business of writing and reading.

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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780198739593
ISBN 10	0198739591
Title	The Novel
Author	Tim Parks
Series	The Literary Agenda
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2015-07-16
Number of pages	200
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