The Global Novel (eBook)

Writing the World in the 21st Century

Adam Kirsch (Autor)

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2017
135 Seiten
Columbia Global Reports (Verlag)
9780997722918 (ISBN)

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What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization?In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st centurys best-known writersincluding Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferranteand how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected.From climate change and sex trafficking to religious fundamentalism and genetic engineering, todays novelists use contemporary subjects to address the perennial concerns of fiction, like morality, society, and love. The global novel is not the bland, commercial product that many critics of world literature have accused it of being, but instead a renewal of the writers privilege of examining what it means to be human.

Autor

Adam Kirsch is the author of three books of poems and several books of criticism and biography, including most recently The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature (W.W. Norton). His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Tablet, and other publications. He is director of the M.A. program in Jewish Studies at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 21st century writers • Analysis • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Contemporary literature • Criticism • Elena Ferrante • Essays • famous writers of 21st century • Fiction • future of fiction • Globalization • Haruki Murakami • Margaret Atwood • Michel Houellebecq • Mohsin Hamid • Novels • Orhan Pamuk • Roberto Balno • theory • World literature
• ISBN-13: 9780997722918 / 9780997722918