True Stories

An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability

Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination?
 
Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.

O colectie irezistibila de scrieri preferate de la un autor sarbatorit pentru stilul sau de bravura si imprevizibilitatea Primului volum binevenit al lui Francis Spufford de eseuri colectate aduna o serie de scrieri convingatoare din anii '90 pana in prezent. El foloseste o varietate de intalniri cu anumite locuri, scriitori sau carti pentru a aborda intrebari mai profunde legate de relatia complicata dintre povestire si adevar.