On Becoming a Novelist
On Becoming a Novelist
ISBN: 9780393320039
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
出版年: 1999-10-17
页数: 172
定价: USD 14.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot. "For a certain kind of person," Gardner writes, "nothing is more joyful or satisfying than the life of a novelist." But no other vocation, he is quick to add, is so fraught with professional and spiritual difficulties. Whether discussing the supposed value of writer's workshops, explaining the role of the novelist's agent and editor, or railing against the seductive fruits of literary elitism, On Becoming a Novelist is an indispensable, life-affirming handbook for anyone authentically called to the profession. "A miraculously detailed account of the creative process."-Anne Tyler, Baltimore Sun
作者简介
约翰?加德纳，美国现代派作家，同时在学术领域也很有建树，是著名作家雷蒙德?卡佛的老师。加德纳一生创作了高达25本之多的畅销书，同时他还在很多大学讲授过创意写作课程，其中包括奇科州立学院、本宁顿学院和纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校等。他所创作的小说《格伦德尔》、《阳光对话》以及《十月之光》堪称当代经典。1982年，他在一场摩托车事故中不幸离世，享年49岁。