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 Negotiating with the Dead - Margaret Atwood
Newest Review: ... into the next. In Chapter 2, The jekyll hand, the hyde hand, she examines the fact that the writer appears to be two separate ... more  ... entities, one that writes and perhaps becomes well known, the other that 'does the living', in other words the mundane everyday activities that perhaps the public does not associate with a writer. It was perhaps at this point that I began to be struck by the fact that the main focus throughout the book tends to be on novelists and poets rather than on journalists or writers of non-fiction books.
Chapter 3, entitled The Great God Pen, looks at the connection - or perhaps conflict - between art and money. As Atwood ...more |
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Negotiating with the Dead - Margaret Atwood: A Writer Writes about Writing (1128 words)
by frangliz - written on 20/03/08 (Very useful, 160 readings)
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Having read and been so impressed by several of Margaret Atwood's works of fiction, I imagined that a book written by her about the art or activity of writing would prove to be an interesting read. As explained in the introduction and prologue to the book, the chapters here are based on the Empson Lectures given by the writer at the University of Cambridge in the year 2000. Chapter 1, entitled Who do you think you are? is mainly autobiographical, tracing Atwood's early years from her birth in Ottawa in 1939 up until her undergraduate student days at Victoria College, the University of Toronto. I found it an enjoyable read that eased me into the book, as I ...
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