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Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre

By Susan Rubin Suleiman

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0691015368, 9780691015361
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
33 MB (34485847 bytes)
Pages
332\332
Topic
Literature
Time added
2017-09-14 20:26:04

Description

Political ideologies often informed early twentieth-century French novels, creating a hybrid genre that is both "realist" and didactic: the roman thse. In this ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work, Susan Suleiman looks beyond the politics of novels by such authors as Malraux, Mauriac, Sartre, and Aragon, and examines their shared formal and generic features. Although the genre itself is considered antimodern, the critical and interpretive problems it raises are central to an understanding of both realist and modernist writing.

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