Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization

by Fredric Jameson

The giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more

A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the na ve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation, and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1804292400
• ISBN13: 9781804292402
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"