The Novelist's Lexicon : : Writers on the Words That Define Their Work / / ed. by Villa Gillet / Le Monde.

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• MitwirkendeR: Albahari, David,; Ali, Tariq,; Angot, Christine,; Arcan, Nelly,; Aswany, Alaa El,; Ayerdhal,,; Brink, André,; Brisac, Geneviève,; Byatt, A. S.,; Cañón, James,; Cendrey, Jean-Yves,; Chatterjee, Upamanyu,; Chen, Ying,; Chirbes, Rafael,; Cixous, Hélène,; Connelly, Karen,; Cooper, Dennis,; Culicchia, Giuseppe,; Delaume, Chloé,; Desplechin, Marie,; Dessaix, Robert,; Dis, Adriaan van,; Ducornet, Rikki,; El-Daïf, Rachid,; Esterházy, Péter,; Fagerholm, Monika,; Farah, Nuruddin,; Fargues, Nicolas,; Fleischer, Alain,; Flint, James,; Forest, Philippe,; Fresán, Rodrigo,; Garlini, Alberto,; Groult, Benoîte,; Gunn, Kirsty,; Haenel, Yannick,; Hassen Khemiri, Jonas,; Henric, Jacques,; Honoré, Christophe,; Huong, Duong Thu,; Japin, Arthur,; Jonigk, Thomas,; Kaplan, Leslie,; Keret, Etgar,; Kongoli, Fatos,; Laferrière, Dany,; Lang, Luc,; Lethem, Jonathan,; Luca, Erri de,; Lustiger, Gila,; Malinconi, Nicole,; McCann, Colum,; Meek, James,; Mendelsohn, Daniel,; Mercier, Pascal,; Moody, Rick,; Peace, David,; Proulx, Annie,; Rasy, Elisabetta,; Reinhardt, Eric,; Rosenthal, Olivia,; Saadi, Suhayl,; Salvayre, Lydie,; Shafak, Elif,; Shalev, Zeruya,; Sok-Yong, Hwang,; Solé, Robert,; Stamm, Peter,; Tejpal, Tarun J.,; Temerson, Catherine,; Thirlwell, Adam,; Trouillot, Lyonel,; Ulitskaya, Ludmila,; Verhulst, Dimitri,; Vila-Matas, Enrique,; Vilain, Philippe,; Walter, Guy,; Weber, Anne,; Wei-Wei,,; York, Alissa,
• HerausgeberIn: Monde, Villa Gillet / Le,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)

At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an extraordinary portrait of writing and reading from...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword: The Courage of Words
• Preface: Apt Words
• A
• Adumbrated
• Aletherature
• Amen
• Anonymity
• Autofiction
• Available
• Awareness of Banality
• B
• Balagan
• The Banana Republic of Letters
• Beauty
• Bildungsroman
• Breton
• Bricoleur
• C
• Catin
• Chaff
• Cinderella
• Creature
• Cunnilingus
• D
• Disappointment
• Discipline
• Dream
• E
• Échapée
• Evolution
• F
• Faire
• Fille
• Furniture
• H
• Happiness
• Harmony and Reconciliation
• Hedonism
• Heretic
• Honesty
• I
• "I"
• Identities
• Wise Imagination
• India
• Insomnia
• Island
• L
• To Last
• Laughter
• Lies
• Loyalty
• M
• Mariquita
• The Meaning of a Word
• The Strolling Mirror
• N
• No
• No Why
• Nomad
• The Novel as Web
• Novel/Life
• What Is the Novel?
• Novice
• P
• Paralipomena
• Pathos
• Phantom
• Physical
• Plague
• (The) Present
• R
• "Real"
• The Real
• (Holy) Russia
• S
• A Successful Sentence
• Shadow
• Signed D.C.
• Silence
• The Depopulated Skies
• Suffering
• T
• Terroir
• U
• Un-
• Unknowable
• The Unreal
• W
• Waiting/Attention
• Woman
• The Word Word
• "Words, Words, Words"
• Work
• Y
• Yusuf
• Z
• Zorby
• Contributors
• Index
• Backmatter