Finding a Form: EssaysGass, William H.
9780375412578
Tests of Time
William H. Gass
ISBN 10: 0375412573 / 0-375-41257-3
ISBN 13: 9780375412578
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780375412578
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
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In these fourteen witty and elegant essays, William Gass (“the finest prose stylist in America”—Steven Moore, Washington Post) writes about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion.
In the first of three parts, Gass addresses literary matters and writers, and contemplates, among other things: the nature of narrative and its philosophical implications; experimental fiction and its importance; literary “lists” (including the currently controversial canon of western literature) and their use. In part two, Gass looks at social and political contretemps: the extent and cost of political influences on writers; the First Amendment, the Fatwa, and Salman Rushdie; our view of Germany, as in “How German are we?” Finally, Gass gives us a celebration of Flaubert and considers the problems of writing history.
Tests of Time is William Gass at his most dazzling. It is a high-wire act of thinking and writing that serves up what Vladimir Nabokov called an “indescribable tingle of the spine.”
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"[Gass] views the world idiosyncratically, spilling out fresh gems at every turn....Gas can write about nothing in particular and about everything, in essays humorous and arch, complex and accessible--and always good fun."
Kirkus, 12/15/2001
Review:"...Gass ranges widely across the cultural landscape....Gass is more convincing when he writes about the things he loves...."
New Yorker, 04/15/2002
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