How to read novels as a professor. Foster T.

Professor of the University of Michigan in Flint Thomas Foster, the author of the bestseller “How to read literature as a professor”, illuminating the milestones “brief, disordered and very unusual” history of the novel genre, helps to understand the narrative fabric of the novels and learn to see the hidden connections between the works of different authors and eras. A real gift for the sophisticated reader!

“The irresistible charm of the novel is largely explained by his ability to cooperate; Readers are involved in the history of the heroes, they themselves are actively involved in creating meaning. The reward is more natural for them than the artificial genres of drama or film in their very nature. Living communication between the Creator and his audience begins with the first line, does not stop to the last word and precisely thanks to him, even having finished reading, we remember for a long time about the novel... We decide whether to agree with the author that it is important, we will bring Our concepts and fantasies in what is connected with heroes and events, we are drawn not just into the plot, but into all aspects of the novel, we together with the author create its meaning. We do not part with the book, we support life in it, even if the author has not been in the world for many centuries. Active, indifferent reading - the key to the life of the novel, the reward and reflection of the life of the reader. "