How Fiction Works

by James Wood

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How Fiction Works

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In the tradition of E. M. Forster's IAspects of the Novel/I and Milan Kundera's IThe Art of the Novel/I, IHow Fiction Works /Iis a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character? What constitutes a 'telling' detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is realism realistic? Why do most endings of novels disappoint? Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carr