Finding a Form

Essays

by William H. Gass

Gass's first collection of essays in eight years concerns art, writing, culture, and nature. Specifically, he looks at the relationship of a writer's life to the writer's work. Gass also writes about history, the avant-garde, minimalism, the use of the present tense in contemporary fiction, biography as a form, and exile. Through these issues, he is always examining language and its relationship to consciousness.

Editions of Finding a Form

	ISBN 9780679446620	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1996	Price $1.54	Good Condition
	ISBN 9780801484896	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Cornell Univ Pr	Date 1997	Price $4.28	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . [These] pieces deal with Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in relation to their thought; various species of the avant-garde from Pierre de Ronsard to Degas, Beckett and the Bauhaus; the exacting demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Committee's 'banal and hokey' choices in fiction; and the abyss between the moral viewpoints expressed in works of art and the lives of their creators. Gass's deeply felt essays . . . are quotable, flecked with fertile insights and a pleasure to read."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "These essays showcase precision intellectual workmanship, displaying intricate multifaceted models of how writing and thinking relate to life."-Kirkus Reviews