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The dictator's dictation : the politics of novels and novelists /

"In these 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 Ginz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyers, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The indigenous berserk : Philip Roth
  • Identity and diffidence : Seamus Deane
  • A generous mind : Natalia Ginzburg
  • Clear light and shadow : Anita Desai
  • Bullets of milk : John Updike
  • Politics and postmodernism : Mario Vargas Llosa
  • In exile from exile : Norman Manea
  • The normality blues : Peter Schneider
  • Discipline and punish : Fleur Jaeggy
  • Primacies and politics : Nadine Gordimer
  • Thinking about evil : Kafka, Naipaul, Coetzee
  • Pathos and resignation : Pat Barker
  • Stiflings : László Krasznahorkai
  • The dictator's dictation : Augusto Roa Bastos
  • Many types of ambiguity : Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Rubble and ice : W.G. Sebald.