Ivan Stacy

Complicit Text

Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores complicity in the novels of Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Atwood. It examines how complicity occurs through failures of witnessing that are present on a thematic level, both in narrative form itself and in readers' engagement with the texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781498598705
• ISBN-10: 1498598706
• Artikelnr.: 59963721

Autorenporträt

Ivan Stacy is associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Complicit Silences: Albert Camus
Chapter 2. The Trap of Totalitarianism: Milan Kundera
Chapter 3. Consolation and Complicity: Kazuo Ishiguro
Chapter 4. Traces of Complicity: W. G. Sebald
Chapter 5. Paranoid Conspiracy: Thomas Pynchon
Chapter 6. Compromised Narratives: Margaret Atwood's Dystopias
Conclusion
Bibliography