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How Literature Saved My Life
By:David Shields
Published on 2013-02-05 by Vintage

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“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature. Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascal’s Pensées to Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Renata Adler’s Speedboat to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his “ridiculous” ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he revels in a new kind of art that is based heavily on quotation and consciousness. And he shares with us a final irony: he wants “literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn’t lie about this––which is what makes it essential.” A captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original way of thinking about the essential acts of reading and writing.

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Colm Tóibín, these award-winning article writer of The Leaderand Brooklyn, changes the attention to your problematic relationships approximately daddies and then sons—expressly your concerns concerned with the literary giants Oscar Wilde, Wayne Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and then most of the fathers. Wilde loathed this parent, nonetheless established that they were considerably alike. Joyce's gregarious biological dad horde your boyfriend's son by Ireland as a consequence of her volatile mood and drinking. Whilst Yeats's papa, the latest plumber, is it seems like an excellent conversationalist in whose click ended up being additional slick than the art she produced. A majority of these renowned individuals and the daddies what person really helped pattern these folks occur living for Tóibín's retelling, just as Dublin's amazing inhabitants.

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