Negotiating with the dead : a writer on writing /

• Main Author: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
• Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, > 1939-; Novela; Arte de escribir

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Into the labyrinth
• Prologue
• Orientation: who do you think you are? (What is "a writer," and how did I become one?)
• Duplicity: the jekyll hand, the hyde hand, and the slippery double (Why there are always two)
• Dedication: The great god pen (Apollo vs. Mammon: at whose altar should the writer worship?)
• Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & co. (Who waves the wand, pulls the strings, or signs the Devil's book?)
• Communion: nobody to nobody (the eternal triangle: the writer, the reader, and the book as go-between)
• Descent: Negotiating with the dead (Who makes the trip to the Underworld, and why?).