The Art of Fiction by John Gardner6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Let a state of total war be declared not between art and society but between the age-old enemies, real and fake.”Īnd in his book, “The Art of Fiction: Notes On Craft For Young Writers” that passion for fiction comes across. ![]() His view of art, and by extension fiction, could be summed up by this quote, appearing in his work, “On Moral Fiction,” where he wrote, “Almost all modern art is tinny, commercial and immoral. He loved fiction and took the gift he was given seriously. He was a literary critic, father, poet, novelist, and a teacher-the latter being, to me and I’m sure the thousands of students and readers he’s touched, his most important impact on the literary world. A half hour later, on September 14th, 1982, John Gardner was pronounced dead from blunt force trauma. There was the screech of rubber on freshly-oiled gravel, a crash, then silence. It was 2:30 pm on a Tuesday in September when the sound of a harley bounced off the sparse pine trees of Route 92 two miles from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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