The Resource Politics and the novel during the Cold War, David Caute
Politics and the novel during the Cold War, David Caute
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- Summary
- "David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War." "Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the "god that failed" pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include Hemingway, Dos Passos, Orwell, Koestler, Malraux, Serge, Greene, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Strikingly different approaches to the burning issues of the time are found among orthodox Soviet novelists such as Sholokhov, Fadeyev, Kochetov, and Pavlenko. Soviet official culture continued to choke on modernism, formalism, satire, and allegory." "In Russia and Eastern Europe dissident novelists offered contesting voices as they engaged in the fraught re-telling of life under Stalinism. Studies of Pasternak, Grossman, Chukovskaya, Wolf, Johnson, Kundera, and Vladimov lead on to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, viewed as a uniquely gifted critic of the Soviet system. A sequence of thematic commentaries compare Western and Soviet fictional responses to the Moscow trials, terror, forced labor, and the nature of totalitarianism. The figures of Stalin and Lenin are shown to have fascinated novelists." "The emergence of the New Left in the 1960s generated a new wave of fiction challenging America's global stance. Mailer, Doctorow, and Coover brought fresh literary sensibilities to bear on such iconic events as the 1967 siege of the Pentagon and the execution of the Rosenbergs."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Commentary : the Spanish labyrinth
- Malraux : Days of hope
- Hemingway : For whom the bell tolls
- Dos Passos : betrayal
- Orwell : Homage to Catalonia
- Koestler : sentence of death
- Commentary : the Soviet trials
- Beyond Darkness at noon
- Serge : The case of comrade Tulayev
- Orwell : from big pig to big brother
- Commentary : totalitarianism, ideology, power
- Sartre : history, fiction and the party
- Commentary : Soviet forced labour camps
- Koestler and the little flirts
- Commentary : fellow-travellers
- Greene : The quiet American
- Commentary : the socialist realist novel from war to cold war
- The tragic case of Vasily Grossman
- Commentary : collectivization
- Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago
- Chukovskaya : honour among women
- Commentary : purge and terror
- The iron fist : the trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky
- Foreign affairs : the menace of Kafka
- Germany doubly divided : Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson
- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
- The first circle
- Commentary : Stalin and Lenin in Soviet fiction
- From Cancer ward to The gulag archipelago
- Commentary : bureaucracy, the new class and double standards
- Vladimov : Faithful Ruslan
- Commentary : fiction, the new journalism, and the postmodern
- Mailer : The armies of the night
- Fiction and the Rosenbergs : E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9781412811613
- Label
- Politics and the novel during the Cold War
- Title
- Politics and the novel during the Cold War
- Statement of responsibility
- David Caute
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Engagement
- Europa (geografie)
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Johnson, Uwe
- Kafka, Franz
- Koude Oorlog
- Krieg
- Literatur
- Literatura y política
- Novela -- S.XX -- Historia y crítica
- Ost-West-Konflikt
- Cold War in literature
- Politics and literature
- Politik
- Politischer Roman
- Romans
- Schrijvers
- Spaanse burgeroorlog
- Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <Motiv>
- Verenigde Staten
- War and literature
- Wolf, Christa
- Political fiction -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War." "Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the "god that failed" pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include Hemingway, Dos Passos, Orwell, Koestler, Malraux, Serge, Greene, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Strikingly different approaches to the burning issues of the time are found among orthodox Soviet novelists such as Sholokhov, Fadeyev, Kochetov, and Pavlenko. Soviet official culture continued to choke on modernism, formalism, satire, and allegory." "In Russia and Eastern Europe dissident novelists offered contesting voices as they engaged in the fraught re-telling of life under Stalinism. Studies of Pasternak, Grossman, Chukovskaya, Wolf, Johnson, Kundera, and Vladimov lead on to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, viewed as a uniquely gifted critic of the Soviet system. A sequence of thematic commentaries compare Western and Soviet fictional responses to the Moscow trials, terror, forced labor, and the nature of totalitarianism. The figures of Stalin and Lenin are shown to have fascinated novelists." "The emergence of the New Left in the 1960s generated a new wave of fiction challenging America's global stance. Mailer, Doctorow, and Coover brought fresh literary sensibilities to bear on such iconic events as the 1967 siege of the Pentagon and the execution of the Rosenbergs."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Caute, David
- Dewey number
- 809.3/935809045
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN3448.P6
- LC item number
- C38 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Cold War in literature
- War and literature
- Politics and literature
- Johnson, Uwe
- Kafka, Franz
- Wolf, Christa
- Krieg
- Politischer Roman
- Ost-West-Konflikt
- Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <Motiv>
- Literatur
- Politik
- Spaanse burgeroorlog
- Koude Oorlog
- Engagement
- Romans
- Schrijvers
- Novela
- Literatura y política
- Europa (geografie)
- Verenigde Staten
- Label
- Politics and the novel during the Cold War, David Caute
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Commentary : the Spanish labyrinth -- Malraux : Days of hope -- Hemingway : For whom the bell tolls -- Dos Passos : betrayal -- Orwell : Homage to Catalonia -- Koestler : sentence of death -- Commentary : the Soviet trials -- Beyond Darkness at noon -- Serge : The case of comrade Tulayev -- Orwell : from big pig to big brother -- Commentary : totalitarianism, ideology, power -- Sartre : history, fiction and the party -- Commentary : Soviet forced labour camps -- Koestler and the little flirts -- Commentary : fellow-travellers -- Greene : The quiet American -- Commentary : the socialist realist novel from war to cold war -- The tragic case of Vasily Grossman -- Commentary : collectivization -- Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago -- Chukovskaya : honour among women -- Commentary : purge and terror -- The iron fist : the trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky -- Foreign affairs : the menace of Kafka -- Germany doubly divided : Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich -- The first circle -- Commentary : Stalin and Lenin in Soviet fiction -- From Cancer ward to The gulag archipelago -- Commentary : bureaucracy, the new class and double standards -- Vladimov : Faithful Ruslan -- Commentary : fiction, the new journalism, and the postmodern -- Mailer : The armies of the night -- Fiction and the Rosenbergs : E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 351324708
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9781412811613
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009044440
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)351324708
- Label
- Politics and the novel during the Cold War, David Caute
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Commentary : the Spanish labyrinth -- Malraux : Days of hope -- Hemingway : For whom the bell tolls -- Dos Passos : betrayal -- Orwell : Homage to Catalonia -- Koestler : sentence of death -- Commentary : the Soviet trials -- Beyond Darkness at noon -- Serge : The case of comrade Tulayev -- Orwell : from big pig to big brother -- Commentary : totalitarianism, ideology, power -- Sartre : history, fiction and the party -- Commentary : Soviet forced labour camps -- Koestler and the little flirts -- Commentary : fellow-travellers -- Greene : The quiet American -- Commentary : the socialist realist novel from war to cold war -- The tragic case of Vasily Grossman -- Commentary : collectivization -- Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago -- Chukovskaya : honour among women -- Commentary : purge and terror -- The iron fist : the trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky -- Foreign affairs : the menace of Kafka -- Germany doubly divided : Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich -- The first circle -- Commentary : Stalin and Lenin in Soviet fiction -- From Cancer ward to The gulag archipelago -- Commentary : bureaucracy, the new class and double standards -- Vladimov : Faithful Ruslan -- Commentary : fiction, the new journalism, and the postmodern -- Mailer : The armies of the night -- Fiction and the Rosenbergs : E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 351324708
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 403 pages
- Isbn
- 9781412811613
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009044440
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)351324708
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Engagement
- Europa (geografie)
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Johnson, Uwe
- Kafka, Franz
- Koude Oorlog
- Krieg
- Literatur
- Literatura y política
- Novela -- S.XX -- Historia y crítica
- Ost-West-Konflikt
- Cold War in literature
- Politics and literature
- Politik
- Politischer Roman
- Romans
- Schrijvers
- Spaanse burgeroorlog
- Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <Motiv>
- Verenigde Staten
- War and literature
- Wolf, Christa
- Political fiction -- History and criticism
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