How literature saved my life, by David Shields
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How literature saved my life, by David Shields
Language
eng
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autobiography
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non fiction
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How literature saved my life
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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825117006
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by David Shields
Summary
"Reading -- Pensees ) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his "ridiculous "ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he revels in a new kind of art that is based heavily on quotation and consciousness. And he shares with us a final irony: he wants "literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesn't lie about this--which is what makes it essential. " A captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original way of thinking about the essential acts of reading and writing
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