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Urgency and Patience
Jean–Philippe Toussaint
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Description for Urgency and Patience
Paperback. "Originally published in French as L'urgence et la patience"--Title page verso. Translator(s): Gauvin, Edward. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 177 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean-Philippe Toussaint here collects a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers he's admired, for example Kafka, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. As Toussaint himself has said, "It's only natural for writers... to say a word about how they write and what they owe to great authors."
Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean-Philippe Toussaint here collects a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers he's admired, for example Kafka, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. As Toussaint himself has said, "It's only natural for writers... to say a word about how they write and what they owe to great authors."
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970791
SKU
V9781628970791
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Ref
99-15
About Jean–Philippe Toussaint
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for "The Truth about Marie". His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Edward Gauvin was a 2007 fellow at ... Read more
Reviews for Urgency and Patience
"I particularly recommend Urgency and Patience to everyone who dreams of writing, or starting out in the business. Really? Yes, because the novelist here reveals his methodology, his rules, tricks, mannerisms, constraints... and, as reading is inseparable from writing, his experiences as a reader..."
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