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The only way out, writes Howard Nemerov, is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present--henceforth?--the subject to which you are condemned. This is the record of the struggle to compose a novel; a struggle transformed by Nemerov into a far-reaching exploration of the creative process itself. He often shows bravery and shrewdness; the book is full of fine criticism and psychological insight. As always, his prose has that ease and transparency that make one forget one is reading; one seems simply to hear a voice speaking. Nemerov's improvised self-analysis has weaknesses, but few that he himself doesn't eventually recognize.--New York Times Book Review In an age of explicitness, Nemerov's Journal of the Fictive Life is explicitly without vulgarity; in an age of revelation, it reveals only what counts. More then a book about creativity, it is a beautiful creation.--Richard G. Stern

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Journal of the Fictive Life
• Author: Howard Nemerov
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9780226572611
• ISBN: 0226572617
• ID: 04547851
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 236 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 135 × 12 mm

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