For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal’s dictum for writers of “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer’s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews’s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.
| ISBN: | 9781564781680 |
| Publication date: | 18th January 1990 |
| Author: | Harry Mathews |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 134 pages |
| Series: | American Literature (Dalkey Archive) |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Biography: general |
For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal’s dictum for writers of “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer’s manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews’s life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.
20 Lines a Day features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Biography: general
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20 Lines a Day was written by Harry Mathews and published by Dalkey Archive Press
20 Lines a Day has 134 pages
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