lives of the twentieth-century novel Frank, Edwin 1960- creator text bibliography Literary criticism. nyu 2024 First edition. monographic eng

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xx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm "A notable editor's survey of the defining novels of the twentieth century"-- 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 Edwin Frank. Includes bibliographical references and index. Fiction 20th century History and criticism Ficción Historia y crítica Siglo XX Novela Historia y crítica Siglo XX PN 3503 F828s 2024 809.3/04 9780374270964 (hardcover) 0374270961 (hardcover) 2024017379 DLC 240502 20250814131119.0 23671205 eng