LEADER 02618nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910821671703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-44967-5 010 $a0-19-536410-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000413518 035 $a(EBL)430687 035 $a(OCoLC)609831008 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289437 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289437 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10385399 035 $a(PQKB)11237543 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430687 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000413518 100 $a19870401d1985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAtrocity and amnesia $ethe political novel since 1945 /$fRobert Boyers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$dc1985 215 $a1 online resource (272 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-19-503620-4 311 0 $a0-19-505082-7 327 $aContents; 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. Gu?nter Grass: Negativity and the Subversion of Paradigms; 10. Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera; Notes; Index 330 $aWorking 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. 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.3 676 $a809.3/9358 676 $a809.39358 700 $aBoyers$b Robert$0458348 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821671703321 996 $aAtrocity and amnesia$9172371 997 $aUNINA