1st Edition

The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

By Patrick Reilly Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante's "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader... Read more
Lands of darkness; Dostoyevsky; Hardy; Conrad; Wharton; Kafka; West; Camus; Waugh; O'Connor.

Biography

Patrick Reilly