The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel: with Other Essays on the Genesis, Composition and Reception of Literary Fiction

David Lodge

Where do novelists get their 'ideas' from? How do they develop an idea into a narrative with a specific and individual form? How far is the reception of a work of fiction conditioned by factors outside the writer's control? In the first part of this book, in revealing and often amusing reminiscence, Dav...