Bibliograph

The global novel, writing the world in the 21st century, Adam Kirsch

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The global novel, writing the world in the 21st century, Adam Kirsch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 105)

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The global novel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

954430101

Responsibility statement

Adam Kirsch

Sub title

writing the world in the 21st century

Summary

I The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century's best-known writers--including Orhan Pamuk, Haruki Murakami, Roberto Bolaño, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mohsin Hamid, Margaret Atwood, Michel Houellebecq, and Elena Ferrante. They are employing a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected. From climate change and sex trafficking to religious fundamentalism and genetic engineering, today's novelists use 21st-century subjects to address the perennial concerns of fiction, like morality, society, and love. The global novel is not the bland, deracinated, commercial product that many critics of world literature have accused it of being, but rather finds a way to renew the writer's ancient privilege of examining what it means to be human. -- Back cover

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