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An artificial wilderness : essays on 20th-century literature
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An artificial wilderness : essays on 20th-century literature

Author: Sven Birkerts
Publisher: New York : Morrow, ©1987.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sven Birkerts
ISBN: 0688071139 9780688071134
OCLC Number: 15793685
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 430 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. German-language fiction: Robert Musil -- Robert Walser -- Joseph Roth -- Max Frisch -- Gregor von Rezzori -- Heinrich Böll -- Thomas Bernhard -- Peter Schneider -- Eva Demski -- pt. 2. Russian writers: Osip Mandelstam -- Osip Mandelstam's Armenian journey -- Joseph Brodsky -- pt. 3. Twentieth-century constellations: Blaise Cendrars -- Marguerite Yourcenar --- Marguerite Duras -- Michel Tournier -- Primo Levi -- Umberto Eco -- Malcolm Lowry -- Lars Gustafsson -- V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott -- Yaakov Shabtal -- Salman Rushdie -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Julio Cortázar -- The school of Gordon Lish -- Docu-fiction -- pt. 4. Critics and thinkers: Erich Heller -- Walter Benjamin -- Cyril Connolly -- George Steiner -- Eugenio Montale -- Roger Shattuck -- pt. 5. General essays: Notes from a confession -- Rereading -- The leaning umbrella: a reflection on Flaubert -- Television: the medium in the mass age -- An open invitation to extraterrestrials -- Some notes concerning the impossibility of literary biography.
Responsibility: Sven Birkerts.

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