02298cam a2200385 i 4500 1072799454 TxAuBib 20231212120000.0 230808s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023033103 9780802159304 hbk. 0802159303 hbk. (OCoLC)1374092816 TxAuBib rda eng spa Solares, Martín, 1970- Cómo dibujar una novela English. How to draw a novel / Martín Solares ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary. First edition. New York : Grove Press, 2023. 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "A playful, highly visual exploration of novelistic structure and how novels are created, How to Draw a Novel is a meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. In this witty and finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares opens the hood of how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel in unique and complex ways. Solares uses his own line drawings to portray the ebb and flow of the novel, with Moby Dick spiraling across the page while Dracula takes the form of an erratic heartbeat. Solares breaks out of the Anglo-American-dominated canon of many craft books, ranging across Latin and South America as well. He considers how writers invent (or discover) their characters, the importance of place (or not) in the novel, and the myriad shapes the novel may take. This is a writer's book, and an important contribution to the study of craft and fiction"-- Provided by publisher. 20231212. In English, translated from the Spanish. Fiction History and criticism. Fiction Technique. Literary criticism. Essays. Cleary, Heather,. Solares, Martín., First edition.