Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond Contributor(s): Vernyik, Zénó (Editor), Weßel, Matthias (Foreword by), Innes MacAdam, Henry (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1793622256 ISBN-13: 9781793622259 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $120.78 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 828.912 |
LCCN: 2021025186 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.36 lbs) 302 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication. |