Why Read
Selected Writings 2001 - 2021
'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New York From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature. Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell and Conrad. He writes movingly on W.G. Sebald's childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs's Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also expands on his regular column in Literary Hub to ask readers how, what and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world. Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self's trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humour infuse every piece.
From one of the most distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read collects twenty years of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays, with subjects ranging from skyscrapers to typewriter repairmen to a trip to Chernobyl to the past and future of literature. With his trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humour, Self considers titans of literature from Sebald to Woolf to Kafka, and asks readers how, what and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world. Why Read will satisfy both old and new readers of this icon of postmodernist literature.
| Autor: | Self, Will |
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| ISBN: | 9781611856613 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.11.2022 |
| Untertitel: | Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 |
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