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-'''''The Art of Fiction''''' is a book of literary criticism by the British novelist [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]]. The chapters of the book first appeared in 1991-1992 as weekly columns in [[The Independent on Sunday]] and were eventually gathered into book form and published in 1992. The essays as they appear in the book have in many cases been expanded from their original format.+'''Michael J. Frayn''' (born 8 September 1933) is an [[England|English]] [[playwright]] and [[novelist]]. He is best known as the author of the farce ''[[Noises Off]]'' and the dramas ''[[Copenhagen (play)|Copenhagen]]'' and ''[[Democracy (play)|Democracy]]''. His novels, such as ''[[Towards the End of the Morning]]'', ''[[Headlong (Frayn novel)|Headlong]]'' and ''[[Spies (novel)|Spies]]'', have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is [[Claire Tomalin]], the biographer and literary journalist.
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-Lodge focuses each chapter upon one aspect of the art of fiction, comprising some fifty topics. Every chapter also begins with a passage from classic or modern literature that Lodge feels embodies the technique or topic at hand. Some of the topics Lodge analyzes are ''Beginning'' (the first chapter), The Intrusive Author, The Epistolary Novel, [[Magic Realism]], [[Irony]] and Metafiction. Among the authors he quotes in order to illustrate his points are [[Jane Austen]], [[J. D. Salinger]], [[Henry James]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Martin Amis]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] and even himself.+
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-== Chapters ==+
-# Beginning [[Jane Austen]] ''[[Emma]],'' [[Ford Madox Ford]], [http://www.austen.com/emma/ch1.htm " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich ..."]+
-# The Intrusive Author [[George Eliot]], [[E. M. Forster]] +
-# Suspense [[Thomas Hardy]]+
-# Teenage Skaz [[J. D. Salinger]]+
-# The Epistolary Novel [[Michael Frayn]]+
-# Point of View [[Henry James]]+
-# Mystery [[Rudyard Kipling]]+
-# Names [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]], [[Paul Auster]]+
-# The Stream of Consciousness [[Virginia Woolf]]+
-# Interior Monologue [[James Joyce]]+
-# Defamiliarisation [[Charlotte Brontë]]+
-# The Sense of Place [[Martin Amis]]+
-# Lists [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]+
-# Introducing a Character [[Christopher Isherwood]]+
-# Surprise [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]+
-# Time-Shift [[Muriel Spark]]+
-# The Reader in the Text [[Laurence Sterne]]+
-# Weather [[Jane Austen]], [[Charles Dickens]]+
-# Repetition [[Ernest Hemingway]]+
-# Fancy Prose [[Vladimir Nabokov]]+
-# Intertextuality [[Joseph Conrad]]+
-# The Experimental Novel [[Henry Green]]+
-# The Comic Novel [[Kingsley Amis]]+
-# Magic Realism [[Milan Kundera]]+
-# Staying on the Surface [[Malcolm Bradbury]]+
-# Showing and Telling [[Henry Fielding]]+
-# Telling in Different Voices [[Fay Weldon]]+
-# A Sense of the Past [[John Fowles]]+
-# Imagining the Future [[George Orwell]]+
-# Symbolism [[D. H. Lawrence]]+
-# Allegory [[Samuel Butler]]+
-# Epiphany [[John Updike]]+
-# Coincidence [[Henry James]]+
-# The Unreliable Narrator [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]+
-# The Exotic [[Graham Greene]]+
-# Chapters etc. [[Tobias Smollett]], [[Laurence Sterne]], [[Sir Walter Scott]], [[George Eliot]], [[James Joyce]]+
-# The Telephone [[Evelyn Waugh]]+
-# Surrealism [[Leonora Carrington]]+
-# Irony [[Arnold Bennett]]+
-# Motivation [[George Eliot]]+
-# Duration [[Donald Barthelme]]+
-# Implication [[William Cooper (novelist)|William Cooper]]+
-# The Title [[George Gissing]]+
-# Ideas [[Anthony Burgess]]+
-# The Non-Fiction Novel [[Thomas Carlyle]]+
-# Metafiction [[John Barth]]+
-# The Uncanny [[Edgar Allan Poe]]+
-# Narrative Structure [[Leonard Michaels]]+
-# Aporia [[Samuel Beckett]]+
-# Ending [[Jane Austen]], [[William Golding]]+
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Michael J. Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.

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