Around the world in fifty books : collected essays on contemporary writers /
Bringing together fifty essays on contemporary writers, this volume may be seen as a symbolic map intended to help the reader better understand today’s literature. With a sometimes playful or ironic and other times insightful attitude, this collection of texts follows, in a way, as its title suggest...
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| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2026].
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| Summary: | Bringing together fifty essays on contemporary writers, this volume may be seen as a symbolic map intended to help the reader better understand today’s literature. With a sometimes playful or ironic and other times insightful attitude, this collection of texts follows, in a way, as its title suggests, Jules Verne’s example of travelling around the world; this time, symbolically, not in eighty days, but in fifty books, perhaps more like Julio Cortázar, in his “Around the Day in Eighty Worlds.” Our intellectual journey covers a wide cultural space, from Portugal, France and the United Kingdom to the United States and Japan, reading or rereading modern and postmodern novels, short-stories or memoirs, with the aim of finding new meanings even within certain well-known texts. A thought-provoking approach to world literature, this book intends to offer original perspectives and a fresh glimpse on contemporary fiction, taking into account literary geography and also a personal interpretation of some relevant writings published in recent decades. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 260 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages ([258]-260). |
| ISBN: | 9781036465063 1036465063 9781036465070 1036465071 |