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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel Paperback - 2005
by Wood, James
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- Title The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
- Author Wood, James
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
- Date 2005-04-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5D400000ABBE_ns
- ISBN 9780312424602 / 0312424604
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003022955
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.391
From the rear cover
James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity.--Cynthia Ozick
Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed authors writing today, including Franzen, Pynchon, Rushdie, DeLillo, Naipaul, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith. This collection includes Wood's famous and controversial attack on hysterical realism, and his sensitive but unsparing examinations of White Teeth and Brick Lane. The Irresponsible Self is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about modern fiction. Inimitable...He has not only a well-tuned ear for prose but a remarkable ability to convey how novelistic language transubstantiates life into literature...Wood's essays...vibrate with the difficult, serious pleasure that literature uniquely provides.--A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review Wood writes with such felicity and zeal that one feels neither the inclination nor the possibility of disagreeing with him...[His] enthusiasm provides such an attractive alternative to the truculence of Dale Peck, and the bloodlessness of 'in-house' academic criticism.--Robert McFarlane, The Times Literary Supplement James Wood was the chief literary critic of The Guardian and is a senior editor at The New Republic. His previous work includes The Book Against God (Picador, 2004).Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 04/24/2005, Page 28