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　　What is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art?

Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own

childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the

metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to

explain--or excuse --their activities, looking at what costumes

they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her

final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer

is to be seen as "gifted," who is doing the giving and what are the

terms of the gift? Atwood's wide reference to other writers, living

and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both

in Canada and elsewhere. The lightness of her touch is offset by a

seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by

a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of western

literature. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up

in northern Quebec, Ontario, and Toronto. She received her

undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of

Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Throughout

her thirty years of writing, Atwood has received numerous awards

and honorary degrees. Hew newest novel, The Blind Assassin, won the

2000 Booker Prize for Fiction. She is the author of more than

twenty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and is

perhaps best known for her novels, which include Alias Grace

(1996), The Robber Bride (1994), Cat's Eye (1988), The Handmaid's

Tale (1983), Surfacing (1972) and The Edible Woman (1970).

Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal lives and

worldly problems of universal concern, Atwood's work has been

published in more than thirty-five languages, including Japanese,

Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic, and Estonian.

Introduction: Into the labyrinth

Prologue

Orientation: Who do you think you are! 

Duplicity: The jekyll hand, the hyde hand the slippery double

Dedication: The Great God Pen

Temptation: Prospero, the Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co.

Communion: Nobody to Nobody

Descent: Negotiating with the dead

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide reference to other writers is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of Western literature.