"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of contemporary novels. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches, he effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally earnest and appreciative view of the most discussed authors writing today, including Franzen, Pynchon, Rushdie, DeLillo, Naipaul, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312424602
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/03/2010
Año de edición: 2010
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por James Wood
James Wood (Durham, 1965) es crítico literario y escritor de diversos ensayos y novelas. Es también profesor de Crítica Literaria en la Universidad de Harvard y colaborador de The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books y la London Review of Books. Considerado uno de los personajes más influyentes de las letras estadounidenses, es autor, entre otras obras, de The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel y The Fun Stuff.