This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Narrative has traditionally presumed both a story and a storyteller, each inseparable from the other. Certain modernist fiction, however, ...

James Wood begins this beautiful set of reflections on the art of fiction with a celebration of free indirect style, which he sees as the triumphal achievement of Flaubert and the principal modern ...

Indisputably, the answer is yes, as revealed by Leon Neyfakh in the Observer. Wood, the recently hired book critic at The New Yorker, just released his own book, How Fiction Works, a prescriptive ...