A Swim In A Pond In The Rain

A Swim In A Pond In The Rain pdf

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George Saunders

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George Saunders (né le 2 décembre 1958) est un écrivain américain de nouvelles, d'essais, de nouvelles, de livres pour enfants et de romans. Ses écrits ont été publiés dans The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's et GQ. Il a également contribué une chronique hebdomadaire, American Psyche, au magazine du week-end The Guardian entre 2006 et 2008.
Professeur à l'Université de Syracuse, Saunders a remporté le National Magazine Award pour la fiction en 1994, 1996, 2000 et 2004, et le deuxième prix des O. Henry Awards en 1997. Son premier recueil d'histoires, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a été finaliste pour le prix PEN/Hemingway 1996. En 2006, Saunders a reçu une bourse MacArthur. En 2006, il a remporté le World Fantasy Award pour sa nouvelle "CommComm".
Son recueil d'histoires In Persuasion Nation a été finaliste pour le Story Prize en 2007. En 2013, il a remporté le PEN/Malamud Award et a été finaliste pour le National Book Award. Tenth of December: Stories de Saunders a remporté le Story Prize 2013 pour la collection de nouvelles et le premier (2014) Folio Prize. Son roman Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) a remporté le Booker Prize 2017.

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A Swim In A Pond In The Rain pdf par George Saunders

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

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