Fractions
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Pages: Good
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What happens when a celebrated literary critic turns the lens of his razor-sharp intellect on the fractured, provisional nature of art and biography itself? Fractions by Andrew Field — presented here with a foreword by Truman Capote — is a bold and brilliantly argued collection of critical essays that interrogates the lives and works of some of the twentieth century's most daring literary figures, including Vladimir Nabokov, whom Field would go on to famously chronicle in his landmark biographies. Field writes with the precision of a surgeon and the passion of a true devotee, dissecting the relationship between author and text, biography and fiction, truth and narrative construction. His prose is confident and unapologetically erudite, presenting critical insight not as academic exercise but as living, breathing intellectual adventure. For readers who hunger for criticism that transcends mere analysis and becomes literature in its own right, Fractions raises a provocative question: if every biography is itself a kind of fiction, what does that make the biographer?
Author: Andrew Field
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when a celebrated literary critic turns the lens of his razor-sharp intellect on the fractured, provisional nature of art and biography itself? Fractions by Andrew Field — presented here with a foreword by Truman Capote — is a bold and brilliantly argued collection of critical essays that interrogates the lives and works of some of the twentieth century's most daring literary figures, including Vladimir Nabokov, whom Field would go on to famously chronicle in his landmark biographies. Field writes with the precision of a surgeon and the passion of a true devotee, dissecting the relationship between author and text, biography and fiction, truth and narrative construction. His prose is confident and unapologetically erudite, presenting critical insight not as academic exercise but as living, breathing intellectual adventure. For readers who hunger for criticism that transcends mere analysis and becomes literature in its own right, Fractions raises a provocative question: if every biography is itself a kind of fiction, what does that make the biographer?