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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Africa List
Release Date : 2018-09-15
The Loss Library And Other Unfinished Stories written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Africa List this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Literary Collections categories.
"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic explores the problems and potentials of the fictions he could not bring himself to write. Drawing from his notebooks of the past twenty years, Vladislavic records here a range of ideas for stories--unsettled accounts, he calls them, or case studies of failure--and examines where they came from and why they eluded him. In the process, he reveals some of the principles that matter to him as a writer, and pays tribute to the writers-- such as Walser, Perec, Sterne, and DeLillo--who have been important to him as both a reader and an author. At the heart of the text, like a brightly lit room in a field of debris, stands Vladislavic's Loss Library itself, the shelves laden with books that have never been written. On the page, Vladislavic tells us, every loss may yet be recovered. An extraordinary book about both the nature of novels and the process of writing, The Loss Library will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the almost magical and mythical experience of breathing life into a new work of fiction. Praise for Vladislavic "In the tradition of Elias Canetti, a tour de force of the imagination."--André Brink "The prose is stunning. It gives the impression of the words and the phrases having been caught from the inside--as though the author lives on the other side of language, where every word is strange and dancing, and the way they are put together produces complicated patterned exchanges like minuets."--Tony Morphet
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Author : Ivan Vladislavić
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Loss Library And Other Unfinished Stories written by Ivan Vladislavić and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Short stories, South African (English) categories.
The Loss Library
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-27
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Thought-provoking essays on unfinished stories
The Loss Library
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2011-10-05
The Loss Library written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Literary Collections categories.
What happens when a story goes missing or remains unrecorded? When a writer carelessly gives his plot away during a conversation or dies before writing the ending? These stories end up in the Loss Library, where the books that have never been written are kept. In this poignant, thought-provoking book, one of South Africa’s fi nest writers examines eleven of his own lost fictions, how the ideas arose and why he abandoned them. But this reflection on the art of writing is not a lament for unfinished work. Rather The Loss Library is a meditation on creativity, mortality and the allure of the incomplete.
Holy The Firm
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Author : Annie Dillard
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2016-04-07
Holy The Firm written by Annie Dillard and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooden room - one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person. For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice and death. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an aeroplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls 'the hard things - rock mountain and salt sea', she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. Holy the Firm is a profound and breath-taking book about the natural world by a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most influential figures in contemporary non-fiction.
South African Writing In Transition
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Author : Rita Barnard
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-21
South African Writing In Transition written by Rita Barnard and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid? Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across the country's literary culture. Establishing new connections between leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal.
Infinite Fictions
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Author : David Winters
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-30
Infinite Fictions written by David Winters and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam Lipsyte to the reclusive Australian genius Gerald Murnane; from the "distant reading" of Franco Moretti to the legacy of Gordon Lish. Meditations on style, form and fictional worlds sit side-by-side with overviews of the cult status of Oulipo, the aftermath of modernism, and the history of continental philosophy. Infinite Fictions is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the forefront of literary thought.
The Song Of Lunch
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Author : Christopher Reid
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-09-23
The Song Of Lunch written by Christopher Reid and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-23 with Poetry categories.
Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human sympathy.
The Short Story After Apartheid
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Author : Graham K. Riach
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-15
The Short Story After Apartheid written by Graham K. Riach and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.
At Home With Ivan Vladislavi
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Author : Gerald Gaylard
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
At Home With Ivan Vladislavi written by Gerald Gaylard and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.