Tradition Scrapped. In the Workshop of the XXth Century fFction

The only book that submerges the reader in the creative process of the great authors of the XX
 
A stimulating visit to the workshop of contemporary narrative, where the reader will observe the details of the process of creation of some of the most significant narrative artifacts of the XXth century.

A practical, interdisciplinary and interactive course where the reader can surf as he was in internet.

Why did Kafka's page seem destined to be always blank? Listen to Satie helps to understand Proust's style? Should we read aloud Ulysses? How much is the first edition of The Great Gatsby worth? How did Faulkner or Capote advise young narrators? What do Mondrian's neoplasticism have in common with Manhattatan Transfer by Dos Passos? Did LSD help Kerouac to solve the On the Road roll? Does Nabokov's Pale Fire prove that the narrators lost their credibility? Joseph Roth wrote thinking about the advance, for Delibes inspiration came when he slept well, editors changed the winning style of Carver and JFK’s death on TV generated Libra by DeLillo as a episode of The Simpsons.

​Claudio Magris - "Happy to be in this book.”