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Book SynopsisIdentifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Corina Stan demonstrates that these authors reimagined how people can live together and provided alternative ways of thinking about community.
Trade ReviewThe Art of Distances is an excellent book that uniquely demonstrates Stan’s amazing talent both as a reader of fictional texts and as a philosophical synthesizer. She delivers compelling arguments and elegant readings of the texts, making her thesis bold and original in its scope."" - Jean-Michel Rabaté, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of
The Pathos of Distance""This book is a veritable tour de force of writers and critics spanning across the entire twentieth century. The chapters are meticulously researched and presented, each containing a wealth of information that presents the authors in a new light. Stan has done an impressive, even extraordinary amount of work in her labors to assemble so many disparate authors, philosophers, and critics."" - Verena Andermatt Conley, author of
Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory
