When first published in 1972, "Survival" was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, "Survival" is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: " What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is " survival and victims."
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.
- ISBN10 0771008724
- ISBN13 9780771008726
- Publish Date 23 March 2004 (first published 1 January 1972)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 25 September 2012
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English