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Chargement... Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteriespar Tim Parks
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How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challenging literary essays that will be a perfect read for all book explorers and practitioners of the pen. After delighting us with his novels and many volumes of non-fiction, Tim Parks - who is not only an acclaimed author and a translator, but also a celebrated literary essayist - gives us a book to enjoy, savour and, most importantly, reread. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This collection of essays is varied and quite wide ranging. Translation is Park’s specialism, particularly English/Italian and anyone interested in this topic will find heaps of useful information. I felt I learned a lot even though I’ve never actually done any but others who know more will get more from it I’m sure. This was probably my least favourite bit as I can connect more with the reading and writing ideas but it was still really interesting and made me more aware of what a good translator does.
Several authors come up repeatedly in the examples and ideas, including Dickens, Joyce and Knausgaard, which help illustrate the ideas but may seem off putting if you haven’t read them. I didn’t find this affected the reading of the book at all and think the non-reader of these authors would manage fine; it certainly helps to have some knowledge of literature to read these through. They are all fairly short and easy to get into; you can pick up and put down this collection with ease. My personal favourite bits were when I agreed with the author – anyone who has had to write an academic essay with the Harvard referencing system will certainly join me and the author in the idea that this should be scrapped in the age of the internet, and I liked the idea that you can demand a lot more from authors than I previously thought through analysing lazy description and things that simply just don’t make sense. Time spent reading this inspired me to be more critical and also to continually improve my own writing. ( )