Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945Oxford University Press, 1985 - Всего страниц: 259 What constitutes a political novel? In this sharply argued book Robert Boyers Demonstrates that the genre is very much alive and cites as evidence the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Milan Kundera. Boyers sees a political novel as an instrument for understanding the central experiences of our day-at its best an act of resistance to the comfortable association of actual conditions. He contends that they achieve their ends not with a soul-searching call to action but by quietly generating respect for the imagination that can never be content with things as they are. Working deliberately against the grain of the assumptions dominant in today's literary academy, Boyers treats the novels of Grass, Solzhenitsyn, Greene, Kundera, and others as criticisms of life rather then self-referring artifacts. In Atrocity and Amnesia, Boyers makes an important contribution to contemporary political thought. |
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... Solzhenitsyn had seemed in his novels to be bringing us the news that other writers had earlier thought to deliver . One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was more than the information it contained on the Soviet prison camps , and The ...
... Solzhenitsyn had seemed in his novels to be bringing us the news that other writers had earlier thought to deliver . One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was more than the information it contained on the Soviet prison camps , and The ...
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... Solzhenitsyn novel is not a unitary phenomenon , not a reflection of some wish to contain diversity so as to underline a meaning . For all the talk of simple values and self - evident , unitary truths , in Solzhenitsyn the action is ...
... Solzhenitsyn novel is not a unitary phenomenon , not a reflection of some wish to contain diversity so as to underline a meaning . For all the talk of simple values and self - evident , unitary truths , in Solzhenitsyn the action is ...
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... Solzhenitsyn's critique of the system to be persuasive . In fact , no conceivable person can represent the combination of mediocrity and brutality that is the Soviet system , though Solzhenitsyn's Stalin comes as close to the ideal as ...
... Solzhenitsyn's critique of the system to be persuasive . In fact , no conceivable person can represent the combination of mediocrity and brutality that is the Soviet system , though Solzhenitsyn's Stalin comes as close to the ideal as ...
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Toward a Reading of Political Novels | 3 |
Imagining a Shared Reality | 17 |
From Satire and Society to Politics | 31 |
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