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Paperback In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980 Book

ISBN: 0226075435

ISBN13: 9780226075433

In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980

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In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero--the antihero--has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model.

Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations...

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