How Literature Saved My Life
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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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 2 GB |
ISBN | 9780307961532 |
Release Date | 2/5/2013 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B00957T76C |
Release Date | 2/5/2013 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780307961532 |
Release Date | 2/5/2013 |