Urgency and Patience

by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628970790
• ISBN13: 9781628970791
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 6.8"