The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present: Volume 1 (Facts on File Library of World Literature)
Language: English
Pages: 961
ISBN: 2:00304618
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present" is a new two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world's greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledged classics to the best of contemporary fiction.
Grischa’s case demonstrates how the administration of justice is abused as it becomes a political weapon used to suppress political opponents. The legal murder of the innocent Russian soldier was for Zweig a symptom of the disease that tormented the postwar German state, in which court trials against the antagonists of the industrial and conservative establishment exhibited only the illusion of justice all too often. Through the figure of Grischa, a common soldier who loses control over his own
(1922) The Castle is the last novel written by Czech author FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924). Kafka began to write the book in 1922 in a village and not, as it is tempting to imagine, in the shadow of Prague’s legendary castle. A customarily Kafkaesque yoking of the absurd and the sinister, The Castle depicts an individual’s fruitless efforts to achieve his objective within an incomprehensible authoritative structure. The story of The Castle is roughly as follows: Joseph K. arrives at a village and claims
balancing and combining these two sides of Xu Sanguan’s character in the development of the plot. The story of the blood merchants takes place in a real historical milieu, but it is far from clear if it is a realistic novel. Some of the characters’ behaviors are so ridiculous as to tint the story with unreal and cartoonlike color. The characters’ dialogue and acts are incredibly frank, thus giving the writing style an impressive tone of absurdity. An example is the funny, sensational description
being derailed. The novel also probes the distinction between reality and illusion, making “mask” a fitting component of the book’s title. Even as a boy, the narrator understands his social obligation to exert a certain masculinity, even with his female playmates. During a game of war, Kochan relishes the thought of his own death. His sadomasochistic fantasies increase in intricacy. He masturbates not only to magazine pictures he has altered, which show the bloody deaths of young men, but also
her family’s unfulfilled lives, she discovers the dead body of Francis Sancher lying facedown in the mud of a mangrove swamp. Having made sure of the dead man’s identity, she proceeds to his house outside the village of Riviere au Sel to inform anyone who might be home. Vilma Ramsaran, Sancher’s pregnant mistress, emerges from the house to receive the news. Very soon the tragedy of Sancher’s untimely death spreads throughout the village. His body is removed from the mangrove swamp and taken to