"The Writer in Pajamas" is a collection of essays by Dani Laferrière, an academician of the French Academy and a Canadian immigrant writer. The whole book combines essay-style reflections and novel-style anecdotes, with hidden connections between chapters, showing readers a humorous portrait of the unknown writer: "The unknown writer, as people say, the 'unknown soldier', wears pajamas."
The whole book consists of two parts. The first part is the introduction, which tells the author's experience when writing his first novel. The second part is a rich writing guide for beginners, covering more than 100 topics such as story opening, point of view expression, scene description, self-criticism, and childhood narrative. Through this guide, the author shares his personal reading experience and literary preferences with readers. His writing career was influenced not only by literary giants such as Homer, Borges, and García Márquez, but also by many unknown names...
