Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Munoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Release date:	April 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Ian Ellison
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	274
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-095446-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	3-03-095446-3
Barcode:	9783030954468

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