03093cam a22004338i 4500 23671205 BJBSDDR 20250814131119.0 ta 240502s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 2024017379 9780374270964 (hardcover) 0374270961 (hardcover) 23671205 DLC eng rda DLC eng pcc PN 3503 F828s 2024 809.3/04 Frank, Edwin, 1960- 43374 Stranger than fiction : lives of the twentieth-century novel / Edwin Frank. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. xx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue: The ellipsis: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from underground Part 1: Breaking the vessels. The vivisector: H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau The abyss: Andre Gide's The immoralist Shutter time: Alfred Kubin's The other side and Franz Kafka's Amerika Youth and age: Colette's Claudine at school and Rudyard Kipling's Kim The American sentence: Gertrude Stein's Three lives A world of literature: Machado de Assis's The posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas and Natsume Soseki's Kokoro Hippe's pencil: Thomas Mann's The magic mountain What did you do in the war? Marcel Proust's In search of lost time and James Joyce's Ulysses Part 2: A scattering of sparks. For there she was: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Nick stands up: Ernest Hemingway's In our time Critic as creator: Robert Musil's The man without qualities The human and the inhuman: Italo Svevo's Confessions of Zeno and Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight The exception: D. H. Lawrence's Sons and lovers and The rainbow The end: Hans Erich Nossack's The end and Vasily Grossman's Life and fate Part III: The withdrawal. Don't cry: Anna Banti's Artemisia and Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart Reflections on damaged life: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Alejo Carpentier's The lost steps The whole story of America: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man Boom: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One hundred years of solitude Into the abyss: George Perec's Life a user's manual Being historical: Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian and Elsa Morante's History The enigma of arrival: V. S. Naipaul's The enigma of arrival Epilogue: W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz "A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher. Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Ficción Historia y crítica Siglo XX 28074 Novela Historia y crítica Siglo XX 4146 Literary criticism. lcgft 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK dpf 124238 124238 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-07-16 0 PN 3503 F828s 2024 00000190482 2025-07-16 15:25:00 1 2025-07-16 BK