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Name: Elvia Wilk - Death by Landscape (epub)
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Title: Death by Landscape
Author: Elvia Wilk
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Sociology, Nonfiction
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 9781593767150
Total pages: 320 str.

From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of "fan nonfiction" about living and writing in the age of extinction
In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.

Wilk examines creative works across time and genre in order to break down binaries between dystopia and utopia, real and imagined, self and world. She makes connections between works by such wide-ranging writers as Mark Fisher, Karen Russell, Han Kang, Doris Lessing, Anne Carson, Octavia E. Butler, Michelle Tea, Helen Phillips, Kathe Koja, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, and Hildegard von Bingen.

What happens when research becomes personal, when the observer breaks through the glass? Through the eye of the fan, this collection delves into literal...