Creationists
Selected Essays 1993-2006
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Narrated by:
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E.L. Doctorow
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E. L. Doctorow
About this listen
Just what is Melville doing in Moby Dick? And how did The Adventures of Tom Sawyer impel Mark Twain to radically rewrite what we know as Huckleberry Finn? Can we ever trust what novelists say about their own work? How could Franz Kafka have written a book called Amerika without ever leaving Europe? In posing such questions, Doctorow grapples with literary creation not as a critic or as a scholar, but as one working writer frankly contemplating the work of another. It's a perspective that affords him both protean grace and profound insight.
Among the essays collected here are Doctorow's musings on the very different Spanish Civil War novels of Ernest Hemingway and André Malraux; a candid assessment of Edgar Allan Poe as our "greatest bad writer"; and a bracing analysis of the story of Genesis in which God figures as the most complex and riveting character.
Rich in aphorism and anecdote, steeped in history and psychology, informed by a lifetime of reading and writing, Creationists opens a magnificent window into one of the great creative minds of our time.
©2006 E.L. Doctorow (P)2006 Random House, Inc.What the critics say
"Doctorow's abiding humanism rekindles and sharpens our perception of creativity." (Booklist)
"Brilliantly written, Doctorow's cultural and literary analysis abounds in acute literary characterizations and mordant observations." (Publishers Weekly)