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This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews. After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grendel (1971) and The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), this philosophical writer with an enviable talent for storytelling was regarded as "a major contemporary writer." After Gardner had demonstrated that he was one of America's most prolific, versatile, and imaginative authors, he became one of its most controversial when he attacked the literary establishment in his book On Moral Fiction and in his interviews. These candid conversations reveal a man of contrasts and contradictions, a writer who, as one of his interviewers rema

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Conversations with John Gardner
• Author: John Gardner, Allan Chavkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• EAN: 9780878054237
• ISBN: 0878054235
• ID: 04751375
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 553 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 1990

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