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How to Write Like Tolstoy
Richard Cohen
其他書名
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
出版Simon and Schuster, 2016-09-01
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN17860702279781786070227
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CB69DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A Spectator Best Book of the Year

‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’

So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets—writing a good sex scene?

Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers—from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d’horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.