Full name: Finding a Form: Essays

Author: William H. Gass Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Award winners, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780801484896 0801484898

William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and geographical - and he examines the relationship of the writer's life to the writer's work. With dazzling intelligence and wit, Gass sifts through cultural issues of our time and contemplates how written language, whether a sentence or an entire book, is a container of consciousness, the gateway to another's mind that we enter for a while and make our own. Similar books: Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee Literary Occasions by V. S. Naipaul The Curtain by Milan Kundera The World Within the Word by William H. Gass Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick Encounter by Milan Kundera New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Toibin The Fun Stuff by James Wood The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass Tests of Time by William H. Gass Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry