Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1555975305
The Art of Time in Fiction by Joan Silber Pdf
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.