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BOOK CLUB KIT. A swim in a pond in the rain in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life by George Saunders; Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev; Leo Tolstoy, graf is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December, a literary masterclass on what makes great stories work, how to write them yourself, and what they can tell us about our world today.In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches each of these 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. For the process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is...

Author
George Saunders; Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ; Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev; Leo Tolstoy, graf
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9781526624253
Subjects
Short Stories, Language Learning, Literary Criticism

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