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The dictator's dictation : the politics of novels and novelists /

"In these essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W.G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginz...

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Main Author: Boyers, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > History > 20th century.
Politics in literature.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0231510071
9780231510073
0231136749
9780231136747
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The indigenous berserk : Philip Roth
  • Identity and diffidence : Seamus Deane
  • A generous mind : Natalia Ginzburg
  • Clear light and shadow : Anita Desai
  • Bullets of milk : John Updike
  • Politics and postmodernism : Mario Vargas Llosa
  • In exile from exile : Norman Manea
  • The normality blues : Peter Schneider
  • Discipline and punish : Fleur Jaeggy
  • Primacies and politics : Nadine Gordimer
  • Thinking about evil : Kafka, Naipaul, Coetzee
  • Pathos and resignation : Pat Barker
  • Stiflings : László Krasznahorkai
  • The dictator's dictation : Augusto Roa Bastos
  • Many types of ambiguity : Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Rubble and ice : W.G. Sebald.

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