The citizen's voice twentieth-century politics and literature
Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. Hans Castorp (Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain), Joseph K. (Franz Kafka's The Trial), John the Savage (A...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Calgary
University of Calgary Press
2003
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009672524306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- We are not immortal
- A bureaucratic nightmare
- In quest of authenticity
- Resisting Big Brother
- No fire; no smoke; no rescue
- Freedom and responsibility
- And History continues
- Being there
- Death of the novel?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.