Author: José Luis Martínez-Dueñas Espejo

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1443869910

There are numerous ways to understand failure in literature: failure to produce a work of demonstrable literary merit, or failure to publish a work despite such merit; failure to see something translated, adapted or performed adequately, or indeed to see it translated, adapted or performed at all; failure to establish a connection with the contemporary reading public, failure to please critics, or to charm readers and hence the failure to achieve substantial sales. An author or a literary wor...