True Stories
True Stories An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictabilityFrancis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays…
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True Stories
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictabilityFrancis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling.
And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination?Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? Lewis, and the