Atrocity and amnesia : the political novel since 1945 ; [Kundera, Naipaul, Solzhenitsyn, Gordimer, Garcia Marquez, Carpentier, Greene, Grass, Steiner, Semprun, Asturias

Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Günter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand these works. A penetrating study, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates some of the major fiction of our time and makes an important contribution to contemporary political thought. Contents......Page 10 1. Toward a Reading of Political Novels......Page 16 2. Time, Presence, Ethics: Imagining a Shared Reality......Page 30 3. V. S. Naipaul: From Satire and Society to Politics......Page 44 4. Graham Greene: Political Virtue and the Fiction of Innocence......Page 68 5. The Head of State and the Politics of Eternal Return in Latin America......Page 84 6. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Politics and the Facts of Life......Page 106 7. Nadine Gordimer: Public and Private......Page 134 I. The Voyage of Jorge Semprun......Page 159 II. George Steiner's Holocaust: Politics and Theology......Page 169 9. Günter Grass: Negativity and the Subversion of Paradigms......Page 186 10. Between East and West: A Letter to Milan Kundera......Page 225 Notes......Page 248 B......Page 266 G......Page 267 H......Page 268 M......Page 269 P......Page 270 T......Page 271 W......Page 272 A study of the (non-American) political novel from 1945 to the present, treating works by Naipaul, Greene, Asturian, Carpenter, Solzhenitsyn, Gordimer, Semprun, Steiner, Grass, and Kundera. V.s. Naipaul -- Graham Greene -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Nadine Gordimer -- Gunter Grass -- Milan Kundera -- Others. Robert Boyers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A penetrating study of novels by Grass, Garcia Marquez, Kundera, and others, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates contemporary fiction and political thought. A penetrating study of novels by Grass, Garcia Márquez, Kundera, and others, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates contemporary fiction and political thought.