Living by Fiction
“Living by Fiction” by Annie Dillard is a revised edition published by HarperCollins on July 20, 1988. This 192-page work is dedicated to those who appreciate literature and explores the significance of fiction through the lens of various renowned writers, including Nabokov, Barth, and García Márquez. Dillard articulates how fiction can illuminate aspects of the modern world and contemporary thought, offering insights that surpass those found in academic sciences.
In this book, readers will encounter Dillard’s engaging prose as she addresses the vital questions surrounding the art of literature. The text delves into the interplay between art and reality, reflecting on the profound impact of fiction on human experience. With her characteristic humor and vivid writing style, Dillard invites readers to consider the essential role that literature plays in understanding our lives and the world around us.
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Living by Fiction is written for–and dedicated to–people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary’s Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard’s vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
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