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Atrocity and Amnesia

The Political Novel since 1945

Robert Boyers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:20th Aug '87

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Working deliberately against the grain of dominant critical assumptions, this book examines the work of authors such as Grass, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn, and Kundera, and argues that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophical purpose if one is to understand these works.

A rara avis in modern literary academia....It speaks well for both Boyers' critical intelligence and his integrity that he never uses simplistic labels...as a basis for his aesthetic judgment. He evaluates not the writer's views, but the literary use he makes of them....The strength of his book lies in his approach to each writer, regardless of his or her particular views. * Stanislaw Baranczak, The New Republic *

ISBN: 9780195050820

Dimensions: 202mm x 135mm x 14mm

Weight: 238g

268 pages