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NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD

內容簡介

內容簡介 Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? An ambitious inquiry into the art of writing and an unprecedented insider’s view of the writer’s universe, from the beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale. What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? An improver of readers’ minds and morals? And who, for that matter, are these mysterious readers? In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the most intelligent writers working in English addresses the riddle of her art: why people pursue it, how they view their calling, and what bargains they make with their audience, both real and imagined. To these fascinating issues Booker Prize-winner Margaret Atwood brings a candid appraisal of her own experience as well as a breadth of reading that encompasses everything from Dante to Elmore Leonard.

各界推薦

各界推薦 瑪格麗特‧愛特伍回顧自己童年及寫作歷程，檢視小說家和詩人用以解釋自身創作活動的種種比喻，坦白自己在寫作路途上的虛實，也鎖定其他小說家埋首寫作時的感覺：阻礙、空洞、迷途、黑暗加上看不見前面道路的掙扎。並旁徵博引，談及許多健在和過世的作家，與她自己在加拿大和國際文壇的寫作經驗軼事。輕快語調之下，是她嚴肅看待寫作之目的與樂趣的態度，以及對西方文學之傳統及迷思的深刻了解。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson. www.margaretatwood.ca

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