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Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945

By Robert Boyers

Book information

Year
1987
ISBN
0195050827, 9780195050820, 0195036204, 9780195036206
LCC
PN3448.P6 B68 1985
Open Library ID
OL2533048M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18066298 bytes)
Pages
268\272
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Günter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, 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.

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