Críticas
A wonderful book . This book is a delight . I love the warmth with which he writes about this teaching, and agree wholeheartedly . All this makes Saunders's book very different from just another "how to" creative writing manual, or just another critical essay . One of the pleasures of this book is feeling his own thinking move backwards and forwards, between the writer dissecting practice and the reader entering in through the spell of the words, to dwell inside the story -- Tessa Hadley ― Guardian
Saunders is such a wise and amiable teacher ... A page-turner -- Robert Webb
Luminously perceptive ― Guardian
A masterclass in how to be human ... unfailingly, often thrillingly illuminating . Published any time, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain would be a joyous reminder that fiction is "the most effective mode of mind-to-mind communication ever devised". Published now, it feels like vital and civilising corrective to the pretend certainties of public life - and, increasingly, of our personal lives too ― Telegraph
One of the most accurate and beautiful depictions of what it is like to be inside the mind of a writer that I've ever read ― New York Times
The Russian greats truly shine in this account; but Saunders is the real star. His way of expressing himself is simultaneously supremely intellectual and jovially down-to-earth. It's rare to read a book and love it so much that you think it's simply perfect. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is that book -- Viv Groskop ― Spectator
Joins a long tradition of using Russian literature as a guide to life . Practical and playful . it also probes exactly how narrative techniques make us more alert, attentive and sympathetic in reading books and the world around us ― i news
By the end Saunders is wondering if there is indeed any point in writing at all. I won't spoil his conclusion.
Suffice to say, the hairs on the back of my neck were alert
― The Times
Suffused with wry humour . Not an academic interpretation, but a reader's companion. I was pleasurably absorbed from start to finish ― Evening Standard
The Booker-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo considers the art of fiction through seven classic Russian short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol ― Guardian, 2021 in Books
The combination of Saunders's piercing mind and the Russian subjects being Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Gogol promises to be a highbrow treat for fans of literature, and a book offering deep insights into storytelling and how narrative functions ― Independent, The books to look out for in 2021
A literary masterclass ― Evening Standard, A look ahead to the best new books in 2021
But the real star of A Swim isn't Chekhov or Turgenev or Tolstoy or Gogol - it's Saunders himself ... This book will quite simply make you a better, more observant and more understanding reader ― Big Issue
Part intro to Russian literature, part musings on craft, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is all pleasure ― Financial Times
A worship song to writers and readers ― O, The Oprah Magazine
His warmth, enthusiasm and homespun metaphors - all part of that "writerly charm" - banish any sense of the chilly, mechanistic Fiction Lab ... Gleefully overshoots its brief as a technical manual or how-to guide . A Swim in a Pond in the Rain generates more fun, more wit, more sympathetic sense, than we have any right to hope for from a 400-page critical study ― Arts Desk
There should be more books like this -- Sameer Rahim ― Prospect Podcast
A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion ― Guardian, 50 hottest new books everyone should read
A masterclass in short fiction by one of the finest teachers alive. It is a joyously civilised primer on how to write - and live - better ― Daily Telegraph
Warm, playful and acutely perceptive -- Ian Leslie ― New Statesman, Books of the Year
Not just astute, humane lit crit but an inspirational manifesto for the art of fiction -- Boyd Tonkin ― Spectator, Books of the Year
A masterclass in writing . a real treat -- Naomi Alderman ― Spectator, Books of the Year
[I] loved George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain . Genial, generous and illuminating ... He is a great teacher as well as a great practitioner, and makes you see more ― Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2021
A tin of caviar sort of a book . Saunders guides, prods, nudges, urges you to disagree . It will stay with you and transform how you read story by story, sentence by sentence ― Sunday Times, 24 best fiction books 2021 Contraportada
From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live. 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 as much a craft as it is a quality of openness and a willingness to see the world through new eyes. Funny, frank, and rigorous, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ultimately shows how great fiction can change a person's life and become a benchmark of one's moral and ethical beliefs.
Biografía del autor
George Saunders is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama has one of his ten favourite books of 2021). Three of Saunders' books -Pastoralia, Tenth of December, and Lincoln in the Bardo - were chosen for the New York Times' list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013, he was named one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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