02660nam 22005533 450 991077731540332120230504224615.01-280-44967-50-19-536410-4(CKB)1000000000413518(EBL)430687(OCoLC)609831008(SSID)ssj0000289437(PQKBManifestationID)11218633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289437(PQKBWorkID)10385399(PQKB)11237543(MiAaPQ)EBC430687(EXLCZ)99100000000041351820140113d1987|||| uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAtrocity and amnesia the political novel since 1945 /Robert BoyersOxford :Oxford University Press, USA,1987.1 online resource (272 pages)Description based upon print version of record.Includes index.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.Fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitical fictionHistory and criticismFictionHistory and criticism.Political fictionHistory and criticism.809.3809.3/9358809.39358Boyers Robert458348AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910777315403321Atrocity and amnesia172371UNINA