Bibliograph

How to draw a novel, Martin Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Type

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How to draw a novel, Martin Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to draw a novel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1374092816

Responsibility statement

Martin Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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