Frank, Edwin,  1960- <br/><br/>
Stranger than fiction :  lives of the twentieth-century novel / 
Edwin Frank. 
 - First edition. 
 - xx, 451 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm  
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: The ellipsis: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from underground<br/>Part 1: Breaking the vessels. The vivisector: H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau<br/>The abyss: Andre Gide's The immoralist<br/>Shutter time: Alfred Kubin's The other side and Franz Kafka's Amerika<br/>Youth and age: Colette's Claudine at school and Rudyard Kipling's Kim<br/>The American sentence: Gertrude Stein's Three lives<br/>A world of literature: Machado de Assis's The posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro<br/>Hippe's pencil: Thomas Mann's The magic mountain<br/>What did you do in the war? Marcel Proust's In search of lost time and James Joyce's Ulysses<br/>Part 2: A scattering of sparks. For there she was: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway<br/>Nick stands up: Ernest Hemingway's In our time<br/>Critic as creator: Robert Musil's The man without qualities<br/>The human and the inhuman: Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno and Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight<br/>The exception: D. H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers and The rainbow<br/>The end: Hans Erich Nossack's The end and Vasily Grossman's Life and fate<br/>Part III: The withdrawal. Don't cry: Anna Banti's Artemisia and Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart<br/>Reflections on damaged life: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Alejo Carpentier's The lost steps<br/>The whole story of America: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man<br/>Boom: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One hundred years of solitude<br/>Into the abyss: George Perec's Life a user's manual<br/>Being historical: Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian and Elsa Morante's History<br/>The enigma of arrival: V. S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival<br/>Epilogue: W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz<br/> 
<br/><br/> "A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374270964 (hardcover) 0374270961 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2024017379 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Ficción --Historia y crítica --Siglo XX<br/>Novela--Historia y crítica --Siglo XX 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Literary criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 3503  / F828s 2024 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.3/04