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100 1 $aBoyers, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80060886
245 14 $aThe dictator's dictation :$bthe politics of novels and novelists /$cRobert Boyers.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a218 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-218).
505 00 $tIntroduction. Thinking about politics and the novel -- $g1.$tThe indigenous berserk : Philip Roth -- $g2.$tIdentity and diffidence : Seamus Deane -- $g3.$tA generous mind : Natalia Ginzburg -- $g4.$tClear light and shadow : Anita Desai -- $g5.$tBullets of milk : John Updike -- $g6.$tPolitics and postmodernism : Mario Vargas Llosa -- $g7.$tIn exile from exile : Norman Manea -- $g8.$tThe normality blues : Peter Schneider -- $g9.$tDiscipline and punish : Fleur Jaeggy -- $g10.$tPrimacies and politics : Nadine Gordimer -- $g11.$tThinking about evil : Kafka, Naipaul, Coetzee -- $g12.$tPathos and resignation : Pat Barker -- $g13.$tStiflings : Laszlo Krasznahorkai -- $g14.$tThe dictator's dictation : Augusto Roa Bastos -- $g15.$tMany types of ambiguity : Ingeborg Bachmann -- $g16.$tRubble and ice : W. G. Sebald.
520 1 $a"In these essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J. M. Coetzee and John Updike, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by complacency or wishful thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048055
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104473
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