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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

By David Shields

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2010
ISBN
9780307593238, 2009030237, 0307593231
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3899267 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2022-10-24 05:07:31

Description

With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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