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A temporary future : the fiction of David Mitchell

By Patrick , Mitchell , David; Mitchell , David Stephen; O'Donnell

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2015
ISBN
1441171223, 978-1-4411-7122-1, 978-1-4411-5728-7, 144115728X, 978-1-4411-1613-0, 978-1-4411-9301-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1474556 bytes)
Pages
216\225
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan. Written for a wide constituency of readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell's main concerns-including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity-across the six novels published so far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie-writers whose works explore narrative in an age of globalization and cosmopolitanism. Patrick O'Donnell traces the through-lines of Mitchell's work from ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a chapter on each of the six novels, charts the evolution of Mitchell's fictional project.

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