Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction .
In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction..
Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which Time unfolds in fiction.
Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F.
The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot.
Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction