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The Nearest Thing to Life (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities)
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| #161575 in Books | 2015-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.90 x.40 x5.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 144 pages||31 of 31 people found the following review helpful.| The Nearest Thing to Life|By Joseph Fuentes|This book is comprised of fours essays, three of which were actually given as lectures at the Mandel Center for the Humanities in Brandeis University. What the title refers to as the nearest thing to life is the art of writing. The book's epigraph is a quote from George Eliot: "Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of ampli||
“Rich in verbal artistry . . . [Wood] provides virtuoso displays of eloquence and insight.” —Publishers Weekly
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, the noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of ind...
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