| Interbellum Literature: Writing in a Season of Nihilism Contributor(s): Hermans, Cor (Author) |
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ISBN: 900434179X ISBN-13: 9789004341791 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $178.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Series: Literary Modernism |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (2.05 lbs) 556 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Interbellum Literature historian Cor Hermans presents a panorama of modernist writing in the ominous period 1918-1940. The book offers, in full scope, an engaging synthesis of the most stimulating ideas and tendencies in the novels and plays of a wide circle of writers from France (Proust, Gide, Camus, C line, Tzara, Aragon, Simone Weil), England and Ireland (Virginia Woolf, Orwell, Joyce, Beckett), the USA (Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, O'Neill, Hemingway), Austria-Hungary (Musil, Broch, Kafka, Zweig, Roth), and Germany (Hesse, J nger, B ll, Thomas Mann). Caught between world wars, they nevertheless succeeded in creating some of the best literature ever. They created a philosophy as well, rejecting bourgeois 'mechanical' society, designing escape routes from the nihilism of the times. |