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DARK LANDSCAPE OF MODERN FICTION
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| By: |
PATRICK REILLY |
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Paperback |
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£31.99 |
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£28.79 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1138715301 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781138715301 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS |
| Pub. date: |
11 November, 2019 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts, setting a theme of Dantes Inferno against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery OConnor. The authors thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that |
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