The Post-War Experimental Novel: British and French Fiction, 1945-75

by Andrew Hodgson

Book Overview

Delving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed - or perhaps malformed - the post-war experimental novel, this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war normalization warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350226238
• ISBN13: 9781350226234
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"