Name/Title
(Diblos) notebook, theEntry/Object ID
Library.1373Description
151 p. ; 22 cm.
The (Diblos) notebook by James Merrill
Best known as a poet, James Merrill is also an accomplished novelist, and in The (Diblos) Notebook artfully lays bare the process of writing a novel. A young American writer keeps a notebook that records at one and the same time a series of events on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these events into a novel. Everything that might be found in such a notebook is used here with great cunning: the false starts that end in the middle of a thought; the endless revisions, canceled out in the search for the right word or phrase; the many approaches and backtrackings as the writer seeks an entrance to the materials through several possible doors; the musings on how the material is to be treated; and the wrestlings with the problem of appearance and assumed reality.Collection
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Novelists -- Fiction., Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction., Americans -- Greece -- Fiction., Greece -- Fiction.Publication Details
Author
Merrill, JamesPublisher
Dalkey Archieve PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Normal, ILCall No.
PS 3525 .E6645 D45ISBN
1564780643 (pbk.)LCCN
94009180