The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970-1989

ISBN-13: 9781138440005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018

Allan Massie

Opis

A discussion of the British novel from 1970 to 1989 which considers the various types of novel produced and looks at some of the main writers in the various categories.

Spis treści

The novel today; a personal voice: Anthony Powell, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Kingsley Amis The moral imperative: A.S.Byatt; Margaret Drabble, Stanley Middleton, David Storey, Stan Barstow, Alan Sillitoe, William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Alasdair Gray, Iain Crichton Smith Politics and the novel: Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Brian Moore, William Trevor, V.S.Naipaul, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Piers Paul Read, Fay Weldon Genre fiction: Anthony Burgess, William Golding, Robert Nye, Peter Vansittart, John Banville, J.G.Ballard, Michael Moorcock, John Le Carre, P.D.James, Ruth Rendell The contemporary scene: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Peter Ackroyd, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Emma Tennant, William Boyd, Alan Judd, Anita Brookner, Penelope Lively, A.N.Wilson, Graham Swift, Kuzuo Ishiguro, Timothy Mo, Peter Carey

O autorze

Allan Massie CBE is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist.