The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction - Patrick Reilly - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138715301 - November 11, 2019
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This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts, setting a theme of Dantes Inferno against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery OConnor. The authors thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that

240 pages, NO

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 11, 2019
ISBN13 9781138715301
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 240
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   453 g
Language English  

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