Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Irresponsible Self de James Wood

The Irresponsible Self

Autor James Wood
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2005
The common thread in Wood's latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is an attempt to distinguish between the perhaps rather limited English comedy (as seen in Waugh, for example) and a 'continental' tragic-comedy, which he sees as real, universal and quixotic.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (2) 10124 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Picador USA – 31 mar 2005 12830 lei  3-5 săpt.
  Vintage Publishing – sep 2005 10124 lei  6-8 săpt.

Preț: 10124 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 152
Preț estimativ în valută:
1938€ • 1997$ • 1636£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 03-17 martie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844130979
ISBN-10: 1844130975
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Descriere

When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic.

Notă biografică

James Wood was the chief literary critic of The Guardian and is a senior editor at The New Republic. His previous work includes The Book Against God (Picador, 2004).

Textul de pe ultima copertă

"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick

Following the collection "The Broken Estate"--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--"The Irresponsible Self" confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels.

In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed authors writing today, including Franzen, Pynchon, Rushdie, DeLillo, Naipaul, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith.

This collection includes Wood's famous and controversial attack on "hysterical realism," and his sensitive but unsparing examinations of "White Teeth" and "Brick Lane." "The Irresponsible Self" is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about modern fiction.

"Inimitable...He has not only a well-tuned ear for prose but a remarkable ability to convey how novelistic language transubstantiates life into literature...Wood's essays...vibrate with the difficult, serious pleasure that literature uniquely provides."--A.O. Scott, "New York Times Book Review"

"Wood writes with such felicity and zeal that one feels neither the inclination nor the possibility of disagreeing with him...[His] enthusiasm provides such an attractive alternative to the truculence of Dale Peck, and the bloodlessness of 'in-house' academic criticism."--Robert McFarlane, "The Times Literary Supplement"

James Wood was the chief literary critic of "The Guardian" and is a senior editor at "The New Republic." His previous work includes "The Book Against God" (Picador, 2004).