Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Art of Fiction by David Lodge


This book contains 50 articles about various parts of fiction and gives tips, etc..
I am glad that I read it after a completed a non-fiction writing class in school.  The book made more sense to me because we went over similar literature terminologies in class.

The author makes comments about different parts of fiction – ending, weather, repetition, telling in different voices, implication, irony, surrealism, imagining the future, title, ideas, interior monologue, metafiction, beginning, etc…

It seems that the only thing I took away from this book is that the beginning of a novel should draw us in and he mentions 3 books that I feel I need to read: Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Radical Chic and The Turn of the Screw.

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