02940nam 22006493u 450 991045067260332120210107014215.01-280-44967-50-19-536410-4(CKB)1000000000413518(EBL)430687(OCoLC)609831008(SSID)ssj0000289437(PQKBManifestationID)11218633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289437(PQKBWorkID)10385399(PQKB)11237543(MiAaPQ)EBC430687(EXLCZ)99100000000041351820140113d1987|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrAtrocity and Amnesia[electronic resource] The Political Novel since 1945Oxford Oxford University Press, USA19871 online resource (272 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-503620-4 0-19-505082-7 Contents; 1. Toward a Reading of Political Novels; 2. Time, Presence, Ethics: Imagining a Shared Reality; 3. V. S. Naipaul: From Satire and Society to Politics; 4. Graham Greene: Political Virtue and the Fiction of Innocence; 5. The Head of State and the Politics of Eternal Return in Latin America; 6. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Politics and the Facts of Life; 7. Nadine Gordimer: Public and Private; 8. Political Holocaust Fiction; 9. Günter Grass: Negativity and the Subversion of Paradigms; 10. Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera; Notes; IndexWorking deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand these works. A penetrating study, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates some of the major fiction of our time and makes an important contribution to contemporary political thought.Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismFictionPolitical fiction -- History and criticismPolitical fictionLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCLiterature - GeneralHILCCElectronic books.Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.Fiction.Political fiction -- History and criticism.Political fiction.Languages & LiteraturesLiterature - General809.3809.3/9358809.39358Boyers Robert458348AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450672603321Atrocity and amnesia172371UNINA