Living by Fiction

Living by Fiction

<p><em>Living by Fiction</em> is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction <em>matters</em> and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's <em>Art and Reality,</em> this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. <em>Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</em> and <em>Holy the Firm</em> will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.</p>