| The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction Contributor(s): Reilly, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 113871531X ISBN-13: 9781138715318 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 809.300 |
| Physical Information: (0.97 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts, setting a theme of Dante's Inferno against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that could be described as sadistic. |