AND THE JUDGES SAID... by Kelman, James ISBN 0436275996
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A wide-ranging volume of essays from the Booker Prize-winning author, dealing with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. Outlined are some of the influences that led Kelman to create literary art from music to Russian writers, from the steel industry to the Kurds in Turkey.
James Kelman has long been regarded as one of the finest writers of fiction in the world. In this brilliant collection of essays he deals with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. In the essay And the Judges Said... Kelman outlines some of the influences that led him to create literary art, from the music he heard as a teenager to American and Russian writers, to the lives of the Impressionists. Elsewhere he looks at the role of elitism in literature, the central importance of Chomsky's work in 20th century thought and the work of the Caribbean Artists Movement. There are essays on the struggle to save the steel industry in Scotland and on the situation of the Kurds in Turkey; at the core of the collection is an extended essay on Franz Kafka.
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[edit] Title
AND THE JUDGES SAID...
[edit] Author
Kelman, James
[edit] ISBN
0436275996
[edit] Published
04/04/2002
[edit] Publisher
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
17.99 (GBP)
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17.99 (GBP)
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