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Come Leggere Uno Scrittore (2013)

by John Freeman(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8875783667 (ISBN13: 9788875783662)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Codice Edizioni

review 1: I enjoyed reading this after hearing the author interviewed on public radio. Not being familiar with most of the novelists interviewed by Freeman made it a mixed bag, like "oh, I really should read Roth" or "maybe I should give John Irving another chance" . . . The book made me feel I should reconsider some of my 'required reading', and yet, why? I like what I like; and shouldn't feel less educated for my choices. So many books, so little time!
review 2: So, what is this "How to Read a Novelist"? He says it best in the introduction: author profiles that seek to "reinstate some atmospheric context into the legend of a writer's life and work." The intensely observed, poet's-eye details abound. There's so much gold here: creative process; enigmatic answers; titi... morellating biography; quirky facts; craft lessons; on and on. At times, the profiles fall short of capturing that atmospheric context, but the ones that hit—Morrison, Murakami, DeLillo to name a few—are worth the entire book, are worth a whole five stars and then some. This is an MFA in a box. I will cherish this book forever. I'll put it next to my Paris Review Interviews, next to Gardner's "Art of Fiction," heck, maybe even next to William Gass and James Wood and Susan Sontag. I suspect you'll enjoy this if you're familiar with Emerson's "Aimless Eye" or Buddhism, mostly because of the book's sometimes intangible simplicity, and because "profiles," you learn as you read on, mislead, and Freeman, like Virginia Woolf, like Kathryn Davis or Anthony Doerr, channels his strength with spiritual reporting. Or maybe aura reading. Or maybe on-high, Steinbeckian verisimilitude. Call it whatever you want. If you're a writer, and especially if you're a young writer, go out and read this book. I have a feeling you won't be disappointed. But then again, maybe you will; I'm just one guy. less

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