The dark landscape of modern fiction
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Author
Publication
2003 - Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, England, England
Language
English
Word Count
58,500 words, Guess
Page Count
234 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3561779M
- ISBN-100754633705
- OCLC Control Number50731210
- OCLC Control Numberdarklandscapeofm0000reil
- Library of Congress Control Number2002027784
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- Goodreads4571982
- LibraryThing4952691
Classifications
- DDC809.3/0094
- LCCPN3503 .R42 2003
Description
"This book explores the 'dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts', setting a theme of Dante's Inferno against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevksy, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Nathanael West, Waugh, and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened."--Jacket.
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