The Dictator's Dictation
The Politics of Novels and Novelists
In these elegant 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 Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J. M. Coetzee and John Updike, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by compl…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-13674-7
- EAN: 9780231136747
- Produktnummer: 1440488
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.0 cm 396 g
- Gewicht: 396
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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