Art Into Life
The Craft of Literary Biography
Published on 1. June 2005
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-9745995-3-3 (ISBN)
Description
Art Into Life is a collection of essays by the late Frederick R. Karl that showcases his experience and advice for writing literary biographies. Karl is best known for his biographies of Franz Kafka, George Eliot, William Faulkner, and Joseph Conrad. Part memoir, part detective story, part literary exegesis, part psychological exploration, this comprehensive collection of essays remains free of critical or theoretical jargon. Whether he's writing about Conrad's suicide attempt, Faulkner's drinking bouts, Kafka's maternal bond, or George Eliot's love life, Karl never wavers from his focus on individual experience shaping modern art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
712 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9745995-3-3 (9780974599533)
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Person
Frederick Karl is the author of several books: biographies of Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, and George Eliot; as well as several volumes of literary criticism, among them American Fictions: 1940-1980. He was, also, general editor and volume co-editor of the Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, five volumes of which have appeared.