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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last samurai reread
  name:
    name part: Konstantinou, Lee
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 120 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In 2018, New York magazine convened group of critics to name the best novel of the twenty-first century. Their selection of Helen DeWitt's comic, experimental novel, The Last Samurai, published in 2000, was hardly a conventional choice. In the novel, DeWitt charts the relationship between Ludo, who may or may not be a child genius, and his mother Sibylla, who encourages her son's intellectual interests by immersing him in the classics. The novel, which among other things includes Ludo's search for his father, combined a variety of genres and was published by Talk Miramax Books, the publishing arm of Harvey Weinstein's film company. The novel went on to sell 100,000 copies and received critical and popular acclaim. However, while DeWitt and the novel have gained a passionate following, the book soon fell off the radar of critics, scholars and most readers. In his rereading of The Last Samurai, Konstantinou examines the book in the context of its publication how it relates to the formal, aesthetic and thematic qualities that makes the novel so distinct and rich. He argues that the novel's concern with learning and creativity in a capitalist society and the fate of art in the corporate marketplace comes out of DeWitt's own fraught experiences with the world of corporate synergy, agents, editors, and publicists and how these were sublimated into the novel itself.
  target audience: adult
  note: Lee Konstantinou.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: DeWitt, Helen
      name part: 1957-
  classification: PS3554.E92945 L3735 2022
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Rereadings
  identifier: 9780231185820
  identifier: 0231185820
  identifier: 9780231185837
  identifier: 0231185839
  identifier: 9780231546355
  identifier: 2022015194
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220418
    record change date: 20230828163407.0
    record identifier: in00004636992