British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium
Publisher: Editura All
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
Description: This is NOT a book of scholarly criticism. It may not even be criticism at all, but an informed chat, a reading diary. Its major aim is to establish the name that could be attributed to all literature at the turn of the millennium. I am suggesting Desperado instead of the all too vague Postmodernism, which means everything and nothing any more. Any moment in the history of literature has its postmoment, but not every age has so many Desperadoes as ours.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Foreword; title: Brave New Novel – Aldous Huxley (1894-1963); title: A Handbook of Despair – George Orwell (1903-1950); title: The Self-Indulgent Novelist – Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966); title: The Rescuer of the Story – Graham Greene (1904-1991); title: The Clockwork Novel – Anthony Burgess (1917-1993); title: The Uncomfortable Novelist – Doris Lessing (born 1919); title: A Restlessly Reticent Poet – Philip Larkin (1922-1985); title: Fowles Outbids Fowles – John Fowles (1926-2005); title: Blank Despair of Words – Alan Brownjohn (born 1931); title: Interview with Alan Brownjohn; title: At the Gates of Commonsense – Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000); title: The Self-Consuming Dystopia of Age – Alasdair Gray (born 1934); title: A Desperado of Simplicity – David Lodge (born 1935); title: The Down Syndrome of Emotional Fiction – Julian Barnes (born 1946); title: The Desperado of Sensibility Laid Bare – Peter Ackroyd (born 1949); title: The Novel to Rent – Martin Amis (born 1949); title: The Disappointed and Disappointing Memory-Land Reclaimer – Graham Swift (born 1949); title: Irony and the Compulsion of Reading Morally – Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954); title: Bibliography