Urgency and Patience
Author | : Jean-Philippe Toussaint |
Publisher | : Belgian Literature |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : 1628970790 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781628970791 |
Rating | : 4/5 (791 Downloads) |
Download or read book Urgency and Patience written by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and published by Belgian Literature. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean-Philippe Toussaint here collects a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers he's admired, for example Kafka, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. As Toussaint himself has said, "It's only natural for writers... to say a word about how they write and what they owe to great authors."