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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001â?"2021

Current price: $17.00
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001â?"2021
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001â?"2021

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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001â?"2021

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From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed “the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation” by the , Will Self’s is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature. Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback, and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell, and Conrad. He writes movingly on W.G. Sebald’s childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs’s from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also expands on his regular column in to ask readers, how, what, and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world. Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self’s trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humor infuse every piece. A book that examines how the human stream of consciousness flows into and out of literature, will satisfy both old and new readers of this icon of contemporary literature.

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