Death
Critic James Wood explores how the novel deals with death.
Critic James Wood explores aspects of novelistic technique through a fictional character.
We have talked a lot about life, and its crucial nutrients - thought, talk, sensation, knowing others, our sense of self. How does the novel deal with the end of life, and the absence of all this?
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James Wood was the tyro lead fiction reviewer on the Guardian for several years. He now is a professor at Harvard.
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- Fri 25 Feb 2011 23:00麻豆社 Radio 3
- Fri 1 Jun 2012 22:45麻豆社 Radio 3
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