A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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A GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF
2021'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too. How
necessary, at our particular moment' Tessa Hadley, GuardianFrom the
New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln
in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on
what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about
ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George
Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to
his MFA students at Syracuse University.In A Swim in a Pond in the
Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of
what he and his students have discovered together over the years.
Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and
Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone
interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than
ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders
writes, ",We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale
models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time
maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted
implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions,
questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What
were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is
truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?", He approaches the
stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how
narrative functions, why we stay immersed in a story and why we
resist it, and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster.The process
of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a
way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and
curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not
just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works
while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make
genuine connection possible.
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