Title: The international novel /
Authors: Patterson, Annabel M.,; Mugaburu, Daniel M.,; Mugaburu, Daniel M., 1976-; Mugaburu, Daniel,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Fiction History and criticism; Fiction History and criticism.; Internationalism in literature.; Nationalism in literature.; Fiction; Internationalism in literature.; Nationalism in literature.
Abstract: Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction.
Contents: Introduction -- E. M. Forster, A passage to India -- Ivo Andrić, The bridge on the Drina -- Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in stone: the costs of being small -- Gabriel García Márquez, The autumn of the patriarch -- Sahar Khalifeh, Wild thorns: the worst boundary problem in the world -- V. S. Naipaul, A bend in the river -- Nuruddin Farah, Maps -- Rhea Galanaki, The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: the trouble with Crete -- Salman Rushdie, The satanic verses -- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -- Roberto Bolaño, 2666: apocalypse in a border town -- Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns: and some conclusions.