How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields

eBook - 2013

“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature. Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascal’s Pensées to Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Renata Adler’s Speedboat to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivab...le, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his “ridiculous” ambivalence), his character flaws, his...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
David Shields
Online Access
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Format
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780307961532
Release Date2/5/2013
Kindle Book
ASINB00957T76C
Release Date2/5/2013
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307961532
Release Date2/5/2013