(Diblos) notebook, the

Name/Title

(Diblos) notebook, the

Entry/Object ID

Library.1373

Description

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

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Novelists -- Fiction., Fiction -- Authorship -- Fiction., Americans -- Greece -- Fiction., Greece -- Fiction.

Publication Details

Author

Merrill, James

Publisher

Dalkey Archieve Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Normal, IL

Call No.

PS 3525 .E6645 D45

ISBN

1564780643 (pbk.)

LCCN

94009180