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Bjrn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to dabble in amateur dramatics. In time that relationship also faded, and after four years of living alone Bjrn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life for ever. He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr Schitz, who has a secret of his own and offers to help Bjrn carry his preposterous and dangerous plan through to its logical conclusion. However, the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjrn with new hope and complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he's tangled up in a game or reality. Novel 11, Book 18 , for which Dag Solstad received the Norwegian Critics? Prize for Literature, is an uncompromising and concentrated existential novel that accommodates all of the author?s fundamental themes.

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There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIlvanney - on the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing together some of the most strenuous and perceptive critics of the present moment and putting them in contact with some of the finest novels of the past three decades, it examines what the novel does and what kinds of truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What is it about the language used in a novel that creates a world different from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular novel emplify this? These questions can be answered by the careful examination of particular great works by strong evaluative critics. Robert Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.

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This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form.:.; A jargon-free introduction to the whole history of the novel in the twentieth century.; Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction, the global novel, the digital novel and the post-realist novel.; Offers students ideas about how to read the modern novel, how to enjoy its strange experiments, and how to assess its value, as well as suggesting ways to understand and appreciate the more difficult forms of modern fiction.; Pays attention both to the practice of novel writing and to theoretical debates among novelists.; Claims that the novel is as purposeful and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago.; Serves as an excellent springboard for classroom discussions of the nature and purpose of modern fiction.

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This book argues that the way the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel, a view that had been largely ignored in most accounts of the development of the novel.

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