Essays on Literature.
In these brilliant and fascinating essays, Amos Oz brings his experience as a novelist, teacher and critic to bear on the different ways in which writers enter into this strange and seductive contract with readers.
Analysing in detail the opening sections of novels and stories by such writers as Chekhov, Kafka, Gogol, Garcia Marquez and Raymond Carver, Oz explores how writers reel the reader in. 'The Story Begins' is an accessible, valuable and entertaining companion for students and lovers of literature which takes us into the head of the writer, to relish the creative process and, above all, to reclaim the pure pleasure of reading.
