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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyers, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Political fiction--History and criticism.

Political fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-44967-5

0-19-536410-4

OCLC:

609831008