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Deliberately, if earnestly, he plays with literary form, resuscitating Burton's and Browne's protracted narrative essay.
But, since our era bears so little resemblance to the era of the founders, neither is it the narrative essay he claims to be presenting.
Members were limited to a maximum of six pictures each, which means that single pictures have often been extracted from what was originally meant as a narrative essay.
"We wanted to give the genre a clearer and more prominent role," Dr. Mullan said, "to stir the pot of the narrative essay as it relates to medical practice and health policy.
The book is structured like a museum exhibition catalog, with the pretty pictures and narrative essay up front, followed by increasingly raw data, in increasingly grown-up language and increasingly small typefaces, at the rear.
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A pair of new volumes of his essays, collected as "Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays" and "All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays," allow us to experience again the strongest examples of Orwell's journalistic work.
James Wood, in this week's New Yorker, comments on Harcourt's recent distillation and separation of his nonfiction into critical essays and narrative essays, the latter with an introduction by our own George Packer.
In October, Harcourt will release "Facing Unpleasant Facts," a collection of Orwell's narrative essays (with an introduction by George Packer), and "All Art Is Propaganda," a book of Orwell's critical essays (intro by Keith Gessen).
On my bedside table now is Franzen's "The Discomfort Zone," a wondrous book of lively, intelligent, intimate — and funny — narrative essays, which has received in the Times two of the most bewildering reviews I've ever read.
In "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (usefully included in the selection of narrative essays), Orwell is about to shoot a Fascist soldier, and then cannot, because "he was half-dressed and was holding up his trousers with both hands as he ran".
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