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How to draw a novel / Martín Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First edition; First Grove Atlantic publicationDescription: vi, 194 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802159304
  • 0802159303
Uniform titles:
  • Cómo dibujar una novela. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The welcome mat -- Doubles cast in shades of night -- Into the fog -- The novel as automobile -- A theory of evolution -- Blind and so mysteriously reserved -- How to draw a novel -- Structure's ghost -- A journey around a tale -- Novelesque excitement -- A method for measuring novelesque excitement -- Device with lions -- Insults and images -- Tool for writing a novel -- The character tree -- The myth of the perfect novel -- Bomb theory, or how to end it all -- What lives at the bottom of the lagoon -- Once upon a time -- My uncle and the tiger. Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.
Summary: A meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. Shows how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel. The author uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of novels. He considers how writers invent or discover their characters, the importance or unimportance of place, and the myriad shapes the novel may take. An important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 808.3 S684 Checked out 06/28/2024 33111011227382
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don't Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín Solares

In this finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares examines the novel in all its forms, exploring the conventions of structure, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel in unique and complex ways. With poetic, graceful prose, that reflects the power of fascination with literary fiction, Solares uses line drawings to realize the ebb and flow of the novel, with Moby Dick spiraling across the page while Dracula takes the form of an erratic heartbeat. A novelist, occasional scholar, and former acquiring editor in Mexican publishing, Solares breaks out of the Anglo-American-dominated canon of many craft books, ranging across Latin and South America as well. He considers how writers invent (or discover) their characters, the importance of place (or not) in the novel, and the myriad of forms the novel may take. Solares' passion for the form is obvious, and his insights into the construction of the novel are as profound as they are accessible. This is a writer's book, and an important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.

"Originally published in the Spanish language as Como dibujar una novela in 2014 by Ediciones Era."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194).

A meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. Shows how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel. The author uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of novels. He considers how writers invent or discover their characters, the importance or unimportance of place, and the myriad shapes the novel may take. An important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.

The welcome mat -- Doubles cast in shades of night -- Into the fog -- The novel as automobile -- A theory of evolution -- Blind and so mysteriously reserved -- How to draw a novel -- Structure's ghost -- A journey around a tale -- Novelesque excitement -- A method for measuring novelesque excitement -- Device with lions -- Insults and images -- Tool for writing a novel -- The character tree -- The myth of the perfect novel -- Bomb theory, or how to end it all -- What lives at the bottom of the lagoon -- Once upon a time -- My uncle and the tiger. Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.

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