Novelists in the New Millennium: Conversations with Writers

ISBN-13: 9780230238244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Vanessa Guignery

Opis

A fascinating insight into the twenty-first century's leading literary novelists An unprecedented insightinto the creative minds of someof the bestsellingauthors ofthenew millennium. The critically acclaimed and prize-winning authors include in this collection include: Julian Barnes
Jonathan Coe
Kazuo Ishiguro
Hanif Kureishi
David Lodge
Arundati Roy
Will Self
Graham Swift Each in-depth conversation explores thekey themes in contemporary literature and raises themes of genre, history, form and celebrity culture. Each interview is preceded by an introduction which placesthe writerin context and a general introduction will highlight and make connections between these interviews and debates in contemporary fiction more broadly."

Spis treści

Introduction Julian Barnes Jonathan Coe Kazuo Ishiguro Hanif Kureishi David Lodge Arundhati Roy Will Self Graham Swift Further Reading: British Literature Since 2000 Index.

O autorze

VANESSA GUIGNERY is Professor of English Literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. She is the author of several books and essays on the work of Julian Barnes, including The Fiction of Julian Barnes (Macmillan, 2006), and Conversations with Julian Barnes (Mississippi Press, 2009), co-edited with Ryan Roberts.