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20 Lines a Day

For a period of just over a year, Harry Mathews set about following Stendhal's dictum for writers of "twenty lines a day, genius or not." What resulted is a book that is part journal, parts writer's manual, and part genius. First undertaken as a kind of discipline, the work molds itself into a penetrating reflection on daily events in Mathews's life, his friends, himself, and the act of writing.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 134
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781564781680
  • Genres
  • american
  • Release date
  • 1989