Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
'A genre-busting inquiry into life and art, youth and Virginia Woolf' Guardian, Books to Look Forward to 2025
'I loved Theory & Practice ... raw, funny, truthful, youthful' Tessa Hadley
'Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and Theory & Practice a lightning strike of a book' Ali Smith
It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda, she meets artists, activists, students - and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, a dismaying discovery throws her work on 'the Woolfmother' into disarray.
Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain. Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia's most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.
Rezensionen
A dazzling novel by a hugely talented author
Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and <i>Theory & Practice</i> a lightning strike of a book
<i>Theory and Practice</i> blazes with intelligence, passion and wit.
Startlingly, uncannily good
I loved <i>Theory & Practice</i> ... raw, funny, truthful, youthful
A gem of a book, suffused with the fervent atmosphere of student life, which asks the reader to look again - at literary history, at the idea of the novel, at ourselves
A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth
Ferociously intelligent ...This searching novel offers (de Kretser'
There are very, very few writers who can match her style, her intelligence, her vision. To read her is to be changed
Michelle de Kretser, one of the best writers in the English language, has written her most brilliant book yet. It is, in short, a masterpiece
A truly great writer
Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. <i>Theory & Practice</i> is a wonder
Michelle de Kretser is one of the living masters of the art of fiction
Praise for Michelle de Kretser and <i>Scary Monsters</i>
Magnificent, peerless writing
Kundenbewertungen
campus novel, womens prize, sri lankan author, booker prize, sigrid nunez, ali smith, folio prize, sarah waters, prizewinning fiction, ali smith, olivia laing, glif, im a fan, scary monsters, the years, australian novels, prizewinning, sheena patel, to the lighthouse, miles franklin award, virginia woolf