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
this book is truly elegant, its tone one of generous curiosity
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
Michelle de Kretser is to my mind one of the finest writers alive and <i>Theory & Practice</i> a lightning strike of a book
Is it a novel? is it a memoir? Is it an essay? Who cares. Michelle de Kretser has blown the doors off completely ... <i>Theory & Practice</i> is a damned good book
A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth
An ever-inventive novel alive throughout to the urgent necessities of desire ...a beguiling talent ... precise and involving
A dazzling novel by a hugely talented author
Ferociously intelligent ...This searching novel offers (de Kretser'
Praise for Michelle de Kretser and <i>Scary Monsters</i>
<i>Theory and Practice</i> blazes with intelligence, passion and wit.
A truly great writer
Startlingly, uncannily good
Michelle de Kretser is one of the living masters of the art of fiction
Funny and experimental...the prose shimmers
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
de Kretser is one of the most quietly thrilling writers around -so sharp, funny and inventive that I can only envy anyone who hasn'
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
Magnificent, peerless writing
I loved <i>Theory & Practice</i> ... raw, funny, truthful, youthful
There are very, very few writers who can match her style, her intelligence, her vision. To read her is to be changed
So sharp, funny and inventive that I can only envy anyone who hasn'
Kundenbewertungen
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