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Tag: the novel

263. (Marlon James)

Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women is, like, A Brief History of Seven Killings, a book about plotting and … More

epic, Homer, Marlon James, Post-Colonial Literature, the novel, Victorian Novel

262. (Theodor Fontane)

When Christine dies at the end of Theodor Fontane’s No Way Back, it is felt less as a consequence of … More

the novel, Theodor Fontane

254. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Thackeray’s Vanity Fair doubles that charge: the novel is braced by a simultaneous awareness of Regency and Victorian foibles, of … More

Thackeray, the novel, Victorian, Victorian Novel

251. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

Vanity Fair asks that we accept the affection that the novelist-narrator feels for the creatures of the Fair, animated as … More

Thackeray, the novel, Vanity Fair, Victorian Novel

247. (Stendhal)

  Stendhal is exhausting and bracing because his energy is relentless and directed relentlessly to one end: the refusal of … More

French literature, narration, Realism, Stendhal, the novel

245. (Stendhal)

Stendhal’s romanticism has been described by Erich Auerbach in terms of “atmosphere,” a unifying relation of place, person, and time … More

Romanticism, Stendhal, the novel

244. (Stendhal)

Stendhal’s narration is a perpetual mystery of European literature; it goes hand in hand with his characterization (as narration usually … More

narration, narrative, Stendhal, the novel

220. (Willa Cather)

It’s not only re-reading Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House at the same time as reading the final volumes of Proust’s novel … More

property, Realism, the novel, Willa Cather

217. (Ishmael Reed)

Even though it is frequent in contemporary fiction, present-tense narration is not easily justified. People and place are no more … More

American Literature, Ishmael Reed, satire, the novel

215. (Marcel Proust)

In the fifth volume of Recherche, The Captive, Baron de Charlus refers to a visit he has recently paid to … More

names, Proust, the novel

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