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The Fighter: Literary Essays by: Tim Parks List Price: £17.99 City Travel Guides Price: £12.59 You Save: £5.40 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781846551048 ISBN: 1846551048 Label: Harvill Secker Manufacturer: Harvill Secker Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: October 04, 2007 Publisher: Harvill Secker Studio: Harvill Secker Sales Rank: 238467 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: The Observer : `thought-provoking and often funny.' New Statesman: `impressively cogent book... For a writer so fascinated by conflict, Parks is a model of critical reason and clarity' Irish Times: `few living novelists worth reading can persuade us... to engage, to fight, to struggle, is what counts above all' Book Description: A dazzling collection of essays from one of Britain's outstanding novelists. Synopsis: One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, "Adultery and Other Diversions" and "Hell and Back". This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, were characterized by intense intimacy and ferocious conflict. Elsewhere there are literary essays on tension and conflict in the work of Beckett and Hardy, Bernhard and Dostoevsky, amongst others. Parks is also known for his acerbic chronicles of Italian life and here are essays on Mussolini, Macchiavelli and the Medici. Besides discussing questions of history, politics and literature, "The Fighter" also takes on the serious issue of World Cup football. Above all, these are essays whose ideas and themes call to each other in the most unexpected and ironic ways. From the wide variety of subjects emerges a consistent and convincing picture of a world that forever resists the writer's embattled attempts to wrap it up in language.Muscular and energetic, "The Fighter" is a wonderful display of engagement and judgement. About the Author: Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives near Verona with his wife and three children. His novel Europa was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Destiny and Judge Savage were longlisted in 2000 and 2003. |
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