| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 304 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-304). |
| Contents |
Italo Svevo -- Robert Walser -- Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Torless-- Walter Benjamin, the Arcades Project -- Bruno Schulz -- Joseph Roth, the stories -- Sandor Marai -- Paul Celan and his translators -- Gunter Grass and the Wilhelm Gustloff -- W. G. Sebald, After Nature -- Hugo Claus, poet -- Graham Greene, Brighton Rock -- Samuel Beckett, the short fiction -- Walt Whitman -- William Faulkner and his biographers -- Saul Bellow, the early novels -- Arthur Miller, The Misfits -- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America -- Nadine Gordime -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores -- V. S. Naipaul, Half a Life. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780670038657 |
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0670038652 |
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