Sentence examples for fictional essays from inspiring English sources

I thought of Kundera's fictional essays on the history of desire — and the strangeness of their form.

While there, he wrote a series of mischievous and sometimes fictional essays, including an invented interview with Marlon Brando.

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos.

THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, by Anne Carson.

In her fictional essay the narrator finds papers tucked inside upholstery on an inherited mahogany chair, showing that an ancestor helped slaves on the Underground Railroad.

Now, less than a year later, comes "The Beauty of the Husband," boldly and a bit vaingloriously subtitled "a fictional essay in 29 tangos".

The subtitle of her latest volume, Decreation, is Poetry, Essays, Opera, and the one before that, The Beauty of the Husband, was described on the dust-jacket as "a fictional essay in 29 tangos".

It contains the (perhaps fictional) essay "Beach," which has contributed to the Beat-ification of Bolaño by suggesting that he, like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs before him, had done his share of experimenting with mind-altering substances.

Time is the essential subject of Men in the Off Hours (2000), and poet John Keats's treatment of the subject of beauty is the takeoff point for a further examination of beauty, desire, and marriage in The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001).

In Autobiography of Red (1998)—the story of the winged red monster Geryon and his doomed love for Herakles she draws on the Greek poet Stesichoros, while in The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001) she invokes English poet John Keats.

Not only did her ode to Nora Ephron appear in the magazine, but a vaguely fictional essay about her first love was released yesterday.