Atrocity and amnesia : the political novel since 1945 / / Robert Boyers

• Autore: Boyers Robert
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c1985
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.3; 809.3/9358; 809.39358
• Soggetto topico: Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Political fiction - History and criticism
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Working 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Atrocity and amnesia
• ISBN: 1-280-44967-5; 0-19-536410-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821671703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II