The Art of Fiction

. London, 1992
. The cover shows "The Novel Reader" by Vincent Van Gogh
. ISBN: 0140174923
. 240 páginas
. Valor inclui portes em correio editorial

"I have always regarded fiction as an essentially rhetorical art - that is to say, the novelist or short story-writer "persuades" us to share a certain view of the world for the duration of the reading experience, effecting, when successful, that rapt immersion in an imagined reality that Van Gogh caught so well in his painting "The Novel Reader". Even novelists who, for their own artistic purposes, deliberately break that spell have to cast it first."