http://authorscoop.com/2010/02/25/thursday-morning-litlinks-93/ The Latest in Literary News Mon, 21 May 2012 13:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://authorscoop.com/2010/02/25/thursday-morning-litlinks-93/#comment-8612 Chris Johnson Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:14:28 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=9157#comment-8612 The Guardian blog post about Ferris' book -- the guy who couldn't stop walking -- is interesting. In the post he locates the origins in fiction of the wandering-around observer, the flaneur. He attributes that innovative viewpoint to Baudelaire, but a very cool recent book by James Wood (How Fiction Works) locates the Big Change in the works of Flaubert. I recommend it. It has many other fascinating observations, especially about viewpoint. The Guardian blog post about Ferris’ book — the guy who couldn’t stop walking — is interesting. In the post he locates the origins in fiction of the wandering-around observer, the flaneur. He attributes that innovative viewpoint to Baudelaire, but a very cool recent book by James Wood (How Fiction Works) locates the Big Change in the works of Flaubert. I recommend it. It has many other fascinating observations, especially about viewpoint.

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