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Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Warren F. Motte
Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre...
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Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers
Stephen J. Burn, Peter Dempsey
Since his first novel was published in 1985, Richard Powers has assembled a body of work whose intellectual breadth and imaginative energy bears comparison with that of any writer working today. Intersections pays tribute to that achievement...
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Life Itself: Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel
A.M.A. van den Oever, Annette Visser
Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A.M.A. van den Oever begins by questioning the paradox between Boon's international reputation as a significant innovator of the novel, and the...
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The Paradox of Freedom
Shiva Rahbaran
As the first book-length study of Nicholas Mosley, The Paradox of Freedom combines a discussion of the author's incredible biography with an investigation of his writing, nearly all of which is published by Dalkey Archive Press.
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A Temple of Texts
William H. Gass
Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, A Temple of Texts is the latest critical collection from one of America's greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary...
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Fever Vision: The Life and Works of Coleman Dowell
Eugene Hayworth
From his birth in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression to his suicide in Manhattan in 1985, Coleman Dowell played many roles. He was a songwriter and lyricist for television. He was a model. He was a Broadway playwright. He served in the U.S...
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Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study
G.J. Buckell
This book examines the first five novels of Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981). During his lifetime, many critics cited Heppenstall as the founder of the nouveau roman, believing his debut novel, The Blaze of Noon (1939), anticipated the post-war...
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
Viktor Shklovsky, Shushan Avagyan
One of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"—writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the...
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