Random Destinations: Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew

ISBN-13: 9781349531455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 213 str.

Ed. Lilian R. Furst; L. Furst

Opis

"Random Destinations" links social and political history with literature in its analysis of the ways in which novels and short stories portray the subsequent lives and problems of those who managed to leave Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism.

Spis treści

PART I: TO THE READER 'Shards from the Explosion'; L.Furst PART II: LONDON 'Twin Souls'; A.Brookner 'The Hidden Abyss'; G.Tindall 'A Success Story'; R.Prawer Jhabvala PART III: BRITISH PROVINCES 'Try to Forget'; M.Duffy 'To Serve Under the Chimney'; W.G.Sebald PART IV: NEW YORK 'The Great Loss'; B.Malamud 'An Abundance of Happiness'; R.Prawer Jhabvala 'A Bizarre Double Game'; I.Bashevis Singer PART V: US PROVINCES 'Can You Harmonize?'; C.Asch 'An Inconsequential Appendix and Coda'; R.Jarrell PART VI: INDIA 'Accepting but not Accepted'; A.Desai 'The Hanger-O'; R.Prawer Jhabvala 'A Bit in the Middle of Nowhere'; L.Furst PART VII: NOTES

O autorze

LILIAN R. FURST is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, USA. Born in Vienna she escaped Austria in 1939. She was educated in England, and emigrated to the US in 1971. She has published mainly on nineteenth-century European literature, including Romanticism in Perspective, Fictions of Romantic Irony, and All is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction. She has also published Home is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices, which combines her own childhood memories of emigration with a manuscript left by her father.