I'm Reading From Here

Prepared by: Özge Çelik

Do we need fiction? Do we have to finish every book? How do new media and formats affect our reading experience? Do we read to confirm our point of view or to question it? Who decides the "greatest" novelists and on what basis? How does internationalization affect the content of works? What are author biographies useful for? Has writing novels become a "job" now? While Tim Parks searches for answers to these questions in I'm Reading From Here, he turns our assumptions about literature and its purpose upside down, using his critical readings over the years.

These thirty-seven texts, which complement each other, examine how "local" literary styles disappeared with the emergence of the "international" novel, how market forces shaped "serious" fiction, the unforeseen effects of translation, the problems in the field of literary criticism, and the problematic relationship between the lives and works of writers. Through mind-expanding close readings and looking back at herself again and again, Parks ponders whether writers and readers can escape, on the one hand, the pressure of the new global system and, on the other hand, the pressure of the novel, which is the trademark of this system.

This is a comprehensive book about the questions that go through the minds of everyone who reads, writes, or deals with translation.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 224

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2016

Size: 14x21

Number of Printings: 2nd Edition

Number of Pages: 224

Media Type: Paperback