Living by Fiction

Living by Fictionis written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fictionmattersand how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary'sArt and Reality,this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature.Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker CreekandHoly the Firmwill recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.