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În luna august vă provoc să citim și discutăm despre literatura în sine, despre procesul de creație, trucuri și procedee literare, citit printre rânduri, scris care aprinde imaginația, ba n-aș zice nu chiar și la un pic de critică sau istorie literară, dacă nu e prea pedantă și obositoare.

Hai să zicem că aveți propriile ambiții de scriitor, sau doar că vreți să fiți un cititor (mai) avizat: ce carte credeți că ar putea să vă ajute?

Ca întotdeauna, vă așteptăm aici propunerile și susținerile (câte 2 din fiecare), iar apoi o să votăm.

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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature de Angus Fletcher
The Science of Storytelling de Will Storr
Zen in the Art of Writing de Ray Bradbury

Și ca să sparg gheața, două propuneri din partea mea:

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature de Angus Fletcher



Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere—from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others—each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature’s great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all.

Wonderworks reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most significant developments in the history of literature.

The Science of Storytelling de Will Storr




People have long tried to deduce exactly what makes a great book or a bestseller and most have failed miserably with so many theories doing the rounds that it's almost impossible to know which, if any, have hit the nail on the head. The Science of Storytelling looks at the art of creating a compelling narrative in an entirely different way by using science to break everything down and analyse it. This is an accessible, fascinating and thought-provoking book which is a fantastic resource for writers to help them understand how to craft an engaging story.

trebuie sa caut o lista mai veche, dar sint sigur ca printre titluri e si ceva de Ray Bradbury.

[edit] deci prpunerea mea este Zen in the Art of Writing de Ray Bradbury

Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft—everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style—as well as the inside story of Bradbury's own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays.

Zen in the Art of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you.

[cu scuze pentru postarea direct in engleza, sint un pic pe fuga si nu am cautat traducerea]