| #1862370 in Books | 2007-09-11 | 2007-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.54 x5.17l,.36 | File type: PDF | 192 pages||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A loving look at the creative impulse|By Erica Bell|"A writer who is not writing is a madman". That's Kafka--one of his letters, I think. Is it the one where he cancelled plans for a country holiday with friends because when a writer is creating, "he must hold on to his desk with his teeth"?
E.L. Doctorow understands. He writes in the introduction to his essays,"A|From Publishers Weekly|A grandfatherly gruffness has crept into the speech of the septuagenarian Doctorow. His aging voice is not at all amiss, for Doctorow's essays on literary and other creative minds (such as Harpo Marx and Albert Einstein) contain the sort o
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to the cosmic (Genesis and Einstein). As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and fired his own imagination, Doct...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 | E.L. Doctorow. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
