Helen DeWitt

American novelist best known for her debut novel The Last Samurai (2000); noted for experimental fiction, linguistic erudition, and inventive narrative techniques.

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  1. 1. Your Name Here

    Cover of 'Your Name Here' by Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff

    A collaborative, metafictional novel that layers books-within-books, documents and multilingual passages to trace a project of literary creation and identity. Blending contemporary politics, cultural history and unconventional narrative techniques, it explores the process of becoming a writer and the risks and obsessions that drive artistic ambition.

    The 12323rd Greatest Book of All Time
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