Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945Oxford University Press, 28 мая 1987 г. - Всего страниц: 272 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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... wish to compete with or displace a book I continue to regard as one of the most valuable works of criticism that I know. I did, however, wish to consider for myself whether there is such a thing as the political novel and to ask why ...
... wish to compete with or displace a book I continue to regard as one of the most valuable works of criticism that I know. I did, however, wish to consider for myself whether there is such a thing as the political novel and to ask why ...
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... wish to write a survey of contemporary political fiction. But my reader may well wonder why an American critic should not have devoted even a single chapter of his book to an American writer. Had there been a dominant American political ...
... wish to write a survey of contemporary political fiction. But my reader may well wonder why an American critic should not have devoted even a single chapter of his book to an American writer. Had there been a dominant American political ...
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... wish to revise or abandon. Thus he can say that "in treating twentieth century writers I have found myself placing a greater stress upon politics and ideology as such . . . a gradual shift in approach that seemed to be required by the ...
... wish to revise or abandon. Thus he can say that "in treating twentieth century writers I have found myself placing a greater stress upon politics and ideology as such . . . a gradual shift in approach that seemed to be required by the ...
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... wishes, of course, to look hard at the politics of places used as settings in the novels of V. S. Naipaul or Nadine Gordimer or, for that matter, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Gunter Grass. And "ideology as such" remains an important ...
... wishes, of course, to look hard at the politics of places used as settings in the novels of V. S. Naipaul or Nadine Gordimer or, for that matter, of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Gunter Grass. And "ideology as such" remains an important ...
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... other novel. Would one wish to contend on that account that in its parts it does not resemble other novels? Not to see that resemblance and to think about it would be to miss the 7 Toward a Reading of Political Novels.
... other novel. Would one wish to contend on that account that in its parts it does not resemble other novels? Not to see that resemblance and to think about it would be to miss the 7 Toward a Reading of Political Novels.
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From Satire and Society to Politics | 31 |
Political Virtue and the Fiction of Innocence | 55 |
5 The Head of State and the Politics of Eternal Return in Latin America | 71 |
Politics and the Facts of Life | 93 |
Public and Private | 121 |
8 Political Holocaust Fiction | 146 |
Negativity and the Subversion of Paradigms | 173 |
A Letter to Milan Kundera | 212 |
Notes | 235 |
Index | 253 |
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Стр. 36 - The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Стр. 230 - the basic event" of your novel is "the story of totalitarianism, which deprives people of memory and thus retools them into a nation of children...
Стр. 249 - Afterword: A Talk with The Author," in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (NY: Penguin, 1981), p. 237. 6. Jose Ortega y Gassett, Meditations on Quixote (NY: WW Norton & Co., 1961), p. 60. 7. Robert Boyers, "Nature and Social Reality in Bellow's Sammler," in R. Boyers, Excursions (Pt. Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1977), p. 34. 8. Robert Nisbet, "1984 and the Conservative Imagination," in 1984 Revisited, Irving Howe, ed.
Стр. 55 - Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last adjective?) which they call Greeneland, and I have sometimes wondered whether they go round the world blinkered. 'This is Indo-China,' I want to exclaim, 'this is Mexico, this is Sierra Leone carefully and accurately described. I have been a newspaper correspondent as well as a novelist. I assure you the dead child lay in the ditch in just that attitude.
Стр. 113 - Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Стр. 4 - ... spirit" of comedy or tragedy, the melodramatic or epic "world view," the pastoral "sensibility" or the satiric "vision" — which is something like the generalized existential experience behind the individual texts. In what follows we will take Frye's work as the richest idiosyncratic elaboration of such an approach, for which genre is essentially apprehended as a mode. The second, syntactic approach to genre, which condemns the semantic option as intuitive and impressionistic...
Стр. 26 - ethical thought projects as permanent features of human "experience," and thus as a kind of "wisdom" about personal life and interpersonal relations, what are in reality the historical and institutional specifics of a determinate type of group solidarity or class cohesion'.