The Conflict Revisited; The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781789972092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Marco Malvestio

Opis

This book outlines a new literary form called «post-postmodernism», which abandons the ironic approach of postmodernism while also retaining some postmodern narrative devices such as autofiction and metafiction. This international study features authors such as Roberto Bolaño, William T. Vollmann, and Jonathan Littell

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Post- Postmodernism and the Second World War - Board Games, Serial Killers and the Banality of Evil: The Part about Roberto Bolaño - A Collection of Parables: William T. Vollmann's Europe Central - «A Real Morality Play»: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones - Conclusion: The Second World War and the Post-Postmodern Novel.

O autorze

Marco Malvestio is EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Padua and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto.