Living by Fiction
by Dillard, AnnieEdition: Revised
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Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, GarcÍa MÁrquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Some Contemporary Fiction | |
| Fiction in Bits | p. 19 |
| Time in Smithereens | p. 20 |
| The Egg in the Cage | p. 25 |
| Two Wild Animals, Seven Crazies, and a Breast | p. 36 |
| Character | p. 36 |
| Point of View | p. 41 |
| Return to Narration | p. 44 |
| The Fiction of Possibility | p. 49 |
| Art About Art | p. 49 |
| The Problem of Knowing the World | p. 53 |
| The Fiction of Possibility | p. 56 |
| Where Is the Mainstream? | p. 63 |
| The State of the Art | |
| Revolution, No | p. 69 |
| Marketplace and Bazaar | p. 76 |
| Who Listens to Critics? | p. 93 |
| Fine Writing, Cranks, and the New Morality: Prose Styles | p. 103 |
| Shooting the Agate | p. 104 |
| Calling a Spade a Spade | p. 115 |
| Does the World Have Meaning? | |
| The Hope of the Race | p. 127 |
| May We Discover Meaning? | p. 128 |
| Who Is Crazy? | p. 135 |
| Can Fiction Interpret the World? | p. 145 |
| How a Whale Means | p. 148 |
| Find the Hidden Meaning | p. 155 |
| About Symbol, and with a Diatribe Against Purity | p. 163 |
| A Diatribe Against Purity | p. 170 |
| Does the World Have Meaning? | p. 173 |
| Source Notes | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 188 |
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