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Understanding Irène Némirovsky
Inbunden, 2018
586 kr
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A sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling authorA best-selling novelist in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) was rediscovered in 2004, when her Suite Française, set during the fall of France and the first year of German occupation, became a …
Understanding Uwe Johnson
Inbunden, 1999
516 kr
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An overview of the work of Uwe Johnson, concentrating on five of his novels, including ""Ingrid Babendererde"" and ""Two Views"". A chapter dedicated to his life describes the themes that concerned Johnson in his scandalized existence in both Germanys, the USA and Great Britain.
Understanding W.G.Sebald
Inbunden, 2003
554 kr
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This volume provides a dissection of W.G. Sebald's fiction and his acclaim. A German writer who taught in England for 30 years, he published four novels, first in German and then in English. His work gained even greater acclaim after his death in 2001, just months after the publication of his title …
Understanding Primo Levi
Häftad, 2008
299 kr
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This is a thorough introduction to an author who mixes devotion to art and science with the harrowing experiences of Auschwitz.Primo Levi emerged from the Holocaust as one of the most powerful voices to bear witness to the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps. Italian by birth and Jewish by …
Understanding Robert Musil
Av Allen Thiher
Inbunden, 2009
818 kr
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This book contains deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of ""The Man without Qualities"". In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), Allen Thiher maps Musil's development as a writer, illustrating how his work …
Understanding Samuel Beckett
Av Alan Astro
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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Understanding Samuel Beckett presents an overview of the work of the Irish author whose most famous novels and plays?Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Waiting for Godot, and Endgame?are discussed in depth, alongside some less known earlier texts and later, shorter pieces. Alan Astro pays …
Understanding Roberto Bolano
Inbunden, 2016
778 kr
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In Understanding Roberto Bolano, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of Garcia Marquez and magic realism. Best known for The …
Understanding Franz Kafka
Av Allen Thiher
Inbunden, 2018
586 kr
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Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka’s eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of …
Understanding Claude Simon
Inbunden, 1990
521 kr
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In 1985 Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book provides an introduction to, and survey of, the most important novels written by a man considered by many to be the most important and innovative writer of the French New Novel group. The book's introduction situates Simon in the …
Understanding Samuel Beckett
Av Alan Astro
Inbunden, 1990
521 kr
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Presents an overview of the work of Samuel Beckett. Discussing his famous as well as lesser known texts, the book shows how his characters incorporate silence in their speech to narrate their deaths. Finally it examines ""Stirring Still"", his last text, which evokes his own imminent death.
Understanding Luigi Pirandello
Inbunden, 1997
586 kr
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In this introduction to the life and literary contributions of a Nobel Prize winner and one of Italy's most distinguished writers, Fiora A. Bassanese surveys the stories, novels, and plays of Luigi Pirandello and evaluates the significance of his influence on twentieth-century literature. …
Understanding Christa Wolf
Returning Home to a Foreign Land
Av Margit Resch
Inbunden, 1997
521 kr
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In this chronological study of Christa Wolf's novels, short stories and essays, Margit Resch surveys the literary career of one of Germany's most acclaimed writers. Resch examines the link between Wolf's writing and her country's traumatic past and contends that any assessmnt of the writer must …
Understanding Camilo Jose Cela
Inbunden, 1997
521 kr
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In ""Understanding Camilo Jose Cela"", Lucile C. Charlebois examines the 1989 Nobel laureate's ten most important novels. She shows that in addition to being unequivocally Spanish in their concerns, characters and imagery the novels speak to the larger world with their compendium of insights into …
Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet
Inbunden, 2000
521 kr
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Emerging early in the 1950s as an articulate and provocative spokesman for the ""new novel"", Alain Robbe-Grillet has remained one of the world's leading practitioners of experimental narrative. He continues to reinvent the genre in ways that challenge the conventions of traditional realism, much …
Understanding Julio Cortazar
Inbunden, 2001
422 kr
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This text recounts the varied literary achievements of one of Latin America's most acclaimed and prolific 20th-century writers. Structuring his assessment around metaphors drawn from boxing, the author considers Cortazar's plays, stories, novels, political essays and poetry.
Understanding Thomas Mann
Inbunden, 2004
586 kr
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Understanding Thomas Mann offers a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories, novellas, and nonfiction of one of the most renowned and prolific German writers. In addition to analyzing Mann's most famous works, including Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus, …
Understanding Juan Benet
New Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
714 kr
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Benjamin Fraser offers an engaging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the literary achievements of Spanish writer Juan Benet (1927-1993) that explores how Benet's intertwined perspectives as author and civil engineer collectively shape his worldview. Benet's intellectual range spanned not …
Understanding Marcel Proust
Av Allen Thiher
Inbunden, 2013
586 kr
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Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing works both published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition …
Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama
Inbunden, 2016
650 kr
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In Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama, Margaret Hallissy examines the work of a cross-section of important Irish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who are representative of essential issues and themes in the canon of contemporary Irish literature. …
