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Book Title
Creationists : Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Publication Name
Creationists
Title
Creationists
Subtitle
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0812975642
EAN
9780812975642
ISBN
9780812975642
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Release Year
2007
Release Date
11/09/2007
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Authorship, General, Books & Reading, Essays
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March . Now here are Doctorow's rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists , Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to the cosmic (Genesis and Einstein). As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and fired his own imagination, Doctorow affirms the idea that "we know by what we create." Just what is Melville doing in Moby-Dick ? And how did The Adventures of Tom Sawyer impel Mark Twain to radically rewrite what we know as Huckleberry Finn ? Can we ever trust what novelists say about their own work? How could Franz Kafka have written a book called Amerika without ever leaving Europe? In posing such questions, Doctorow grapples with literary creation not as a critic or as a scholar-but as one working writer frankly contemplating the work of another. It's a perspective that affords him both protean grace and profound insight. Among the essays collected here are Doctorow's musings on the very different Spanish Civil War novels of Ernest Hemingway and Andr Malraux; a candid assessment of Edgar Allan Poe as our "greatest bad writer"; a bracing analysis of the story of Genesis in which God figures as the most complex and riveting character. Whether he is considering how Harpo Marx opened our eyes to surrealism, the haunting photos with which the late German writer W. G. Sebald illustrated his texts, or the innovations of such literary icons as Heinrich von Kleist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Sinclair Lewis, Doctorow is unfailingly generous, shrewd, attentive, surprising, and precise. In examining the creative works of different times and disciplines, Doctorow also reveals the source and nature of his own artistry. Rich in aphorism and anecdote, steeped in history and psychology, informed by a lifetime of reading and writing, Creationists opens a magnificent window into one of the great creative minds of our time.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812975642
ISBN-13
9780812975642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59033036

Product Key Features

Book Title
Creationists : Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Author
E. L. Doctorow
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Authorship, General, Books & Reading, Essays
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz

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Dewey Decimal
809
Dewey Edition
22

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