Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood
A Writer on Writing
A probing exploration of the writer’s vocation, this book examines the tensions between solitude and society, imagination and responsibility, and the mythic roles writers assume (angel, parasite, trickster) alongside the practical realities of publishing and commerce. Blending personal anecdote, literary criticism, and cultural observation, it interrogates the pact between living writers and their dead predecessors, the costumes and masks authors adopt, and the ethical dilemmas of truth, appropriation, and audience expectation. Ultimately it argues that writing is both compulsion and craft—a continual negotiation with tradition, readers, and the self that shapes how stories are made and received.
- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- Canadian
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- Original Language
- English
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