Finding a form
essays
by William H. Gass
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William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and geographical - and he examines the relationship of the writer's life to the writer's work.
With dazzling intelligence and wit, Gass sifts through cultural issues of our time and contemplates how written language, whether a sentence or an entire book, is a container of consciousness, the gateway to another's mind that we enter for a while and make our own.
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Finding a form: essays
2009, Dalkey Archive Press
in English
- 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
1564785297 9781564785299
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Finding a Form
July 28, 1998, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover
in English
0517330717 9780517330715
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Finding a Form: Essays
November 1997, Cornell University Press
Paperback
in English
0801484898 9780801484896
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Finding a form: essays
1996, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
0679446621 9780679446620
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"It is not a serious novelist's nightmare (the possibility is so absurd); nevertheless, suppose you fancied yourself a serious novelist (a writer, as they say, of the first rank), and a wire were delivered in your dream (the telephone rang, there was a sudden knock), and this were followed by the formal announcement that you, Julia Peterkin, or you, Marjorie Rawlings, or you, Allen Drury or Michael Shaara or Alison Lurie, had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 1929 or '39 or '60 or '75 or '85."
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