Urgency and Patience

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."

Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 06/16/2015
Series: Belgian Literature
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 6.80h x 5.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781628970791