Alchemy
Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction
Published on 20. September 2016
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-910749-16-6 (ISBN)
Description
Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact.' Where does that leave the imagination? And who gets to define the parameters of 'reality' and 'fiction' anyway?
Five writers debate the limits of materialism and realism, in art and literature - and offer a passionate defence of the alchemical imagination in a fact-based world.
Five writers debate the limits of materialism and realism, in art and literature - and offer a passionate defence of the alchemical imagination in a fact-based world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 122 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910749-16-6 (9781910749166)
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Persons
Joanna Kavenna is a British novelist and travel writer. Her works include The Ice Museum, Inglorious and The Birth of Love. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Arc, the Guardian and the New York Times, among other publications. She has received the Alistair Horne Fellowship and the Orange Prize for New Writing, and in 2013 was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.