The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
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What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization?
In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century's best-known writers-including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante--and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected.
From climate change and sex trafficking to religious fundamentalism and genetic engineering, today's novelists use contemporary subjects to address the perennial concerns of fiction, like morality, society, and love. The global novel is not the bland, commercial product that many critics of world literature have accused it of being, but instead a renewal of the writer's privilege of examining what it means to be human.
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780997722901
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/13/2017
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
About the Author
Adam Kirsch is the author of three books of poems and several books of criticism and biography, including most recently The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature (W.W. Norton). His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Tablet, and other publications. He is director of the M.A. program in Jewish Studies at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century's best-known writers-including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante--and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees different places and peoples as intimately connected.
From climate change and sex trafficking to religious fundamentalism and genetic engineering, today's novelists use contemporary subjects to address the perennial concerns of fiction, like morality, society, and love. The global novel is not the bland, commercial product that many critics of world literature have accused it of being, but instead a renewal of the writer's privilege of examining what it means to be human.
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780997722901
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/13/2017
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
About the Author
Adam Kirsch is the author of three books of poems and several books of criticism and biography, including most recently The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature (W.W. Norton). His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Tablet, and other publications. He is director of the M.A. program in Jewish Studies at Columbia University and lives in New York City.