Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
Should you finish every book you start How has your family influenced the way you read What is literary style How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup Why do you hate the book your friend likes Is writing really just like any other job What happens to your brain when you read a good book As a writer, translator, critic and professor of literature, Tim Parks, is well placed to investigate any questions we have about books and reading In this collection of lively and provocative pieces he talks about what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light. Download Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks – kino-fada.fr started writing this review, a day after I started reading Tim Parks book, because there were so many thoughts in my head, so many questions I didn t even know I had.Why do some of us feel compelled to get through a book we hardly like, while others like yours trully give up once they realise that it is a waste of time Why do we feel members of a greater community once we read a novel which is accompanied by world wide success And even feel guilty if we don t like it at all Ho...Parks is an English novelist living in Italy In these essays first published in the New York Review of Books between 2010 and 2014, he dwells on the increasing globalization of literature, cautioning that in flattening out country specific references and language seeking out maximum communicability , we are in danger of producing homogenized, Americanized works that lack the vibrancy of the cultures from which they emerged He comes at this from many angles as a writer, as a professor, and Parks is an English novelist living in Italy In these essays first published in the New York Review of Books between 2010 and 2014, he dwells on the increasing globalization of literature, cautioning that in flattening out country specific references and language seeking out maximum communicability , we are in danger of producing homogenized, Americanized works that lack th...Essays on a smattering of topics, such as e books he approves , the Nobel Prize in Literature they re often silly , and the meaning of words lost in translation This latter subject is the most interesting of the entire book, and Parks experience translating Zibaldone makes for compelling reading in his comparison of styles and integration of literary references The most striking example of the book is his description of an Italian translation of 1984 Instead of It was a bright cold day in Essays on a smattering of topics, such ...Parks s essays are sometimes provocative Do We Need Stories Why Finish Books Does Copyright Matter E books Are for Grown ups are a few of their titles.In Why Finish Books Parks advances the radical notion that it s fine to stop reading a book Not just a bad book, but any book A good book The novels of D.H Lawrence, Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, Christina Stead, and others, suggest that beyond a certain point a book might end anywhere and the reader may c Parks s essays are sometimes provocative Do We Need Stories Why Finish Books Does Copyright Matter E books Are for Grown ups are a few of their titles.In Why Finish Books Parks advances the radical notion that it s fine to stop reading a book Not just a bad book, but any book A good book The novels of D.H Lawrence, Elfriede Jelinek, T...I do like reading books about books and reading, and in this collection of essays and articles drawn from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks, extolls the virtues of reading, asks why we hate the books our friends love and tries to fathom just how a Nobel prize winner is selected Other questions that he considers include why finish books, the dull new global novel, what the writers job actually is and can we learn to speak American All of these thing are interesting questions about a vari I do like reading books about books and reading, and in this collection of essays and articles drawn from the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks, extolls the virtues of reading, asks why we hate the books our friends love and tries to fathom just how a Nobel prize winner is selected Other questions that he considers include why finish books, the dull new global novel, what the writers job actually is and can we learn to speak American All of these thing are interesting questions about a variety of subjects on reading, writing and awards, and Parks is not afraid to be provocative in answering them He advocates rethinking the purpose of a book, what it is for, why we read it and ...Now I understand why I was so disappointed by Parks previous book Painting Death That was written at the same time as this book, and it is clear that the author invested all his creative abilities in this book, not in the other one In itself this is nothan a loose collection of short essays about literature, the world of books, the complex phenomenon of reading, writing and translating But Parks especially gives a brilliant insight into what has changed in that industry I beg your par Now I understand why I was so disappointed by Parks previous book Painting Death That was written at the same time as this book, and it is clear that the author invested all his creative abilities in this book, not in the other one In itself this is nothan a loose collection of short essays about literature, the world of books, the complex phenomenon of reading, writing and translating But Parks especially gives a brilliant insight into what has changed in that industry I beg your pardon for that word in recent years, and st...3 Reading Park s essays about language and translation was a thought provoking treat I also loved his essay on the Nobel Prize But I grew weary of Park s obsession with the same club of white, male English American writers Rushdie.I am a sucker for reading books about reading, and Tim Parks s essay collection dyspeptic and insightful is no exception But a question kept occurring to me is it possible to simply have read too many books I don t mean those days when you say, screw the world, and stay inside with a book instead of errands, exercise, sunshine, and all those otherworthwhile enterprises I mean, over a lifetime, reading too many literary novels and essays, from Homer and Shakespeare to Proust, James I am a sucker for reading books about reading, and Tim Parks s essay collection dyspeptic and insightful is no exception But a question kept occurring to me is it possible to simply have read too many books I don t mean those days when you say, screw the world, and stay inside with a book instead of errands, exercise, sunshine, and all those otherworthwhile enterprises I mean, over a lifetime, reading too many literary novels and essays, from Homer and Shakespeare to Proust, James, Calvino, Harakumi and Borges I wonder if that might...Tim Parks, novelist, translator, essayist, writes a regular column for The New York Review of Books Sometimes the essays are about literary topics such as the classics I have to admit I am not much interested in that topic, so I had my doubts about a collection of Parks NYRB essays and was ready to bail out if I was overwhelmed with treatises on Henry James or Herman Melville.As it happens Parks has a loton his mind than just the classics He wades into the e books versus paper books de Tim Parks, novelist, translator, essayist, writes a regular column for The New York Review of Books Sometimes the essays are about literary topics such as the classics I have to admit I am not much interested in that topic, so I had my doubts...a bit controversial ideas of what a writer is tim parks positing that readers many times areinterested in the personality, or imagined being, than what is on the page though whatever turns your crank right if somebody is in the least bit interested in books, that is a good thing and could lead upwards and onwards reading and thinking wise course if could lead to stephenie meyer too, i m sorry and tim parks is ultimately for that and his honest assessment of writers is that they can a bit controversial ideas of what a writer is tim parks positing that readers many times areinterested in the personality, or imagined being, than what is on the page though whatever turns your crank right if somebody is in the least bit interested in books, that is a good thing and could lead upwards and onwards reading and thinking wise course if could lead to stephenie meyer too, i m sorry and tim parks is ultimately for that and his honest assessment of writers is that they can be, many times 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- English
- 19 August 2018 Tim Parks
- Hardcover
- 244 pages
- 1846559030
- Tim Parks
- Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books