Book
Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Physical Description
vi, 510 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Notes
Originally published in 2019 by Vintage, Great Britain, as Serious noticing: selected essays.
"These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and The New Republic"--Title page verso.
Contents
- Fun stuff: homage to Keith Moon
- What Chekhov meant by life
- Serious noticing
- Saul Bellow's comic style
- Anna Karenina and characterization
- Joseph Roth's empire of signs
- Paul Auster's shallowness
- Hysterical realism
- Bohumil Hrabal's comic world
- George Orwell's very English revolution
- Jane Austen's heroic consciousness
- Cormac McCarthy's the road
- Reality examined to the point of madness': László Krasznahorkai
- Wounder and wounded
- On not going home
- Other side of silence: rereading W. G. Sebald
- Becoming them
- Don Quixote's old and new testaments
- Dostoevsky's god
- Helen Garner's savage honesty
- All and the if: God and metaphor in Melville
- Elena Ferrante
- Virginia Woolf's Mysticism
- Job existed: Primo Levi
- Marilynne Robinson
- Ismail Kadare
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Packing my father-in-law's library.
Subjects
- English essays > 20th century.
- English essays > 21st century.
- Literature > History and criticism.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Auster, Paul, 1947-
- Bellow, Saul.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
- Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-
- Ferrante, Elena.
- Garner, Helen, 1942-
- Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997.
- Kadare, Ismail.
- Krasznahorkai, László.
- Levi, Primo.
- Moon, Keith, 1946-1978.
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
- Robinson, Marilynne.
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939.
- Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.