A Biography
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Köp båda 2 för 655 krGiven the fluidity with which [Schmidt] ranges across the canon (as well as quite a bit beyond it), one is tempted to say that he carries English literature inside his head as if it were a single poem, except that there are sections in The Novel on the major Continental influences, toothe French, the Russians, Cervantes, Kafkaso it isnt only English. If anyones up for the job, it would seem to be him Take a breath, clear the week, turn off the WiFi, and throw yourself in The book, at its heart, is a long conversation about craft. The terms of discourse arent the classroom shibboleths of plot, character, and theme, but language, form, and address. Here is where we feel the force of Schmidts experience as an editor and a publisher as well as a novelist Like no other art, not poetry or music on the one hand, not photography or movies on the other, [a novel] joins the self to the world, puts the self in the world, does the deep dive of interiority and surveils the social scope [Novels] are also exceptionally good at representing subjectivity, at making us feel what its like to inhabit a characters mind. Film and television, for all their glories as narrative and visual media, have still not gotten very far in that respect, nor is it easy to see how they might Schmidt reminds us whats at stake, for novels and their intercourse with selves. The Novel isnt just a marvelous account of what the form can do; it is also a record, in the figure who appears in its pages, of what it can do to us. The book is a biography in that sense, too. Its protagonist is Schmidt himself, a single reader singularly reading. -- William Deresiewicz * The Atlantic * [Schmidt] reads so intelligently and writes so pungently Schmidts achievement: a herculean literary labor, carried off with swashbuckling style and critical aggression. -- John Sutherland * New York Times Book Review * If you want your books a bit quieter and more extensive chronologically, then do try poet Michael Schmidts 700-year history of the novel, The Novel: A Biography, which covers the rise and relevance of the novel and its community of booklovers in a delightful tale, not at all twice-told, that reminds us of exactly why we read. -- Brenda Wineapple * Wall Street Journal * A wonderful, opinionated and encyclopedic book that threatens to drive you to a lifetime of rereading books you thought you knew and discovering books you know you dont. -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman * The Novel: A Biography is a marvel of sustained attention, responsiveness, tolerance and intelligence It is Schmidts triumph that one reads on and on without being bored or annoyed by his keen generosity. Any young person hot for literature would be wise to take this fat, though never obese, volume as an all-in-one course in how and what to read. Then, rather than spend three years picking up the opinions of current academics, the apprentice novelist can learn a foreign language or two, listen, look and then go on his or her travels, wheeling this book as vade mecum. -- Frederic Raphael * Literary Review * In recent years, while the bookish among us were bracing ourselves for the bookless future, stowing our chapbooks and dog-eared novellas in secret underground bunkers, the poet and scholar Michael Schmidt was writing a profile of the novel. The feat itself is uplifting. Bulky without being dense or opaque, The Novel: A Biography belongs on the shelf near Ian Watts lucid The Rise of the Novel and Jane Smileys livelier user manual, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. Taking as his guide The March of Literature, Ford Madox Fords classic tour through the pleasures of serious reading, Schmidt steers clear of the canon wars and their farcical reenactments. He doesnt settle the question of whether Middlemarch makes us better people. He isnt worried about trigger warnings. And he doesnt care that a Stanford professor is actively no
Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow and a writer in residence at St Johns College, Cambridge. He is founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press.