- 303 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figure
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- From Reviving the Dinosaur to Reconnecting with the Visionary
- Part I BETWEEN GENRES AND SUBGENRES
- Chapter One “Bucco the Peasant”
- Chapter Two Can There Be Multiple Keys?
- Part II THE POLITICAL NOVEL
- Chapter Three Images of Revolution
- Chapter Four Bernard’s Vision of the Totalitarian State in Arrival and Departure
- Part III INVESTIGATING THE SELF AND ITS DILEMMAS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE NOVEL
- Chapter Five Beyond Communism
- Chapter Six Rubashov’s Heritage
- Part IV THE ZIONIST NOVEL: NATION, IDENTITY AND RACE
- Chapter Seven Thieves in the Night
- Chapter Eight Arthur Koestler and the Jewish Race According to Thieves in the Night
- Part V THE NOVEL AS SUMMARY
- Chapter Nine The Call-Girls
- Index
- About the Contributors