One Person and Another: On Writers and Writing
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Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1880909065
ISBN13:9781880909065
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Baskerville Publishers
Length:425 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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Orderly Miscellanies
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Stern's trademark is to blend together life and art, fiction and nonfiction, to deliver an orderly miscellany focused on a particular theme. In One Person and Another it's idolatry. Stern uses 63 pieces of biography, criticism, and commentary on literature to consider the nature of idolatry. By tightly observing himself and his idols-Beckett, Bellow, Kafka, to name a few-Stern puts forth a skeptical vision that nonetheless argues for the literary life as justification for life itself. The book's organization by themes such as "Literary Portraits" and "Getting at Oneself" also lends itself to a deep analysis of the art and business of writing. A wonderfully engaging analysis of the reading life.
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