Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction
This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante''s "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O''Connor. The author''s thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reade...
This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante''s "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O''Connor. The author''s thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reade...
