{"product_id":"reading-the-modern-european-novel-since-1900-9781118680681","title":"Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Modern European Novel since 1900\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz''s precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso by Daniel R. Schwarz xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Novel After 1900 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cultural Crisis: Decadence and Desire in Mann’s Death in Venice (1912) 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Proust's Swann's Way (1913) and the Novel of Sensibility: Memory, Obsession, and Consciousness 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Metamorphosis (1915): Kaf ka's Noir Challenge to Realism 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Camus's Indifferent, Amoral, and Godless Cosmos: The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947) as Existential Novels 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Why Giorgio Bassani Matters: The Elegiac Imagined World of Bassani and the Jews of Ferrara 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Novel as Elegy: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard (1958) 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (1959): Reconfiguring European History as Fable 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Imre Kertész's Fatelessness (1975): Rendering the Holocaust as a Present Tense Event 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984): History as Fate 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Saramago's The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989): Rewriting History, Reconfiguring Lives 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red (1998): Cultural Conflict in Sixteenth]Century Istanbul and its Modern Implications 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Herta Müller's The Hunger Angel (2009): A Hunger for Life, A Hunger for Words 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet: Women Discovering Their Voices in a Violent and Sexist Male Society 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography (Including Works Cited) 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 334\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528834916695,"sku":"9781118680681","price":108.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118680681.jpg?v=1731873207","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-the-modern-european-novel-since-1900-9781118680681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}