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Synopsis
The Postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language. In this challenging and wide-ranging new study, André Brink argues that this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings. More specifically, every novel appears both to construct, and to be constructed by, its own notion of language, elaborated through all the strategies of narrative. Taking as his starting point 'the propensity for story' embedded in language, he offers stimulating new readings of novels from Cervantes to Calvino, demonstrating that in many respects the old familiar texts may be more startlingly modern, and the Postmodernist texts more firmly rooted in convention, than we tend to think.
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Review
What a treat to explore the novel as a genre through the lucid eyes of André Brink, himself one of the world's foremost novelists! Starting from the premise that language, in all its playfulness and multiple variety, is the key to understanding this form of literature, Brink brilliantly explores and reinterprets a series of several texts. I particularly enjoyed the way in which the most traditional novels were revealed as contemporary and entirely relevant.' – Ariel Dorfman, Distinguished Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies
'André Brink's new study of the novel is the work of an important practitioner who also knows well the current state of criticism. It's a fine book, reaching across the historical and international variety of the novel, a form distinguished both by its linguistic exploration and its power of narrative. Students and lovers of the novel, the great modern form, should enjoy the book, with its fine journey from Cervantes to Calvino, with equal pleasure.' – Malcolm Bradbury
About the Author
Andre Brink is Professor of English at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. His novels, including A Dry White Season, Instant in the Wind, An Act of Terror, and Imaginings of Sand, have been published in twenty-nine languages.
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- ISBN 10 0813713307
- ISBN 13 9780813713304
- BindingHardcover
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