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The Irresponsible Self

James Wood

2004312 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780374177379
  • 2005Picador · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780312424602
  • 2004Jonathan Cape · 312 pagesISBN 9780224064507

Defends what Wood calls "secular comedy"-human, tragicomic, forgiving, bound up with the very origins of the novel -against the narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce, which is corrective, punitive, and theatrical. [publisher web site].

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