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Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. Hans Castorp (Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain), Joseph K. (Franz Kafka's The Trial), John the Savage (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World), Winston Smith (George Orwell's 1984), Ralph (William Golding's Lord of the Flies), Merusault (Albert Camus's The Stranger), Ida Ramundo (Elsa Morante's History), and Chauncey Gardiner (Jerzy Kosinski's Being There) participate in ideological, technological, and organizational projects of the twentieth century. Keren observes these infamous characters' behaviours and attitudes while they struggle through world wars, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, the Holocaust, the development of the atomic bomb, de-colonization, the Cold War, and globalization. Here is a refreshing contribution to civil society theory that makes a pioneering effort to cross the boundaries between politics, literature, and culture. A study of the human condition via literature, The Citizen's Voice expounds the key features of a "good citizen" while offering a perfect discussion piece for courses in political theory, politics and literature, and history.

Literature --- Politics and literature. --- Civil society. --- Modern.

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Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. Hans Castorp (Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain), Joseph K. (Franz Kafka's The Trial), John the Savage (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World), Winston Smith (George Orwell's 1984), Ralph (William Golding's Lord of the Flies), Merusault (Albert Camus's The Stranger), Ida Ramundo (Elsa Morante's History), and Chauncey Gardiner (Jerzy Kosinski's Being There) participate in ideological, technological, and organizational projects of the twentieth century. Keren observes these infamous characters' behaviours and attitudes while they struggle through world wars, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, the Holocaust, the development of the atomic bomb, de-colonization, the Cold War, and globalization. Here is a refreshing contribution to civil society theory that makes a pioneering effort to cross the boundaries between politics, literature, and culture. A study of the human condition via literature, The Citizen's Voice expounds the key features of a "good citizen" while offering a perfect discussion piece for courses in political theory, politics and literature, and history.

Literature --- Politics and literature. --- Civil society. --- Modern.

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Chateaubriand s'oppose à Napoléon et Hugo au Second Empire ; Lamartine prend la tête de la IIe République ; George Sand se bat pour le socialisme naissant ; Zola lance son " J'accuse " et Maurras L'Action française ; Barrès milite pour le nationalisme et Gide contre le colonialisme ; Malraux prend les armes lors de la guerre d'Espagne. L'engagement est-il seulement affaire de principes ? N'est-il pas toujours plus ou moins ambigu chez l'écrivain ? Entre quête de pureté et désir de gloire, voici les stratégies adoptées par quelques-unes des plus grandes figures du panthéon littéraire français des XIXe et XXe siècles.

Authors, French. --- Intellectuals --- Politics and literature. --- Political activity

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Mallarmé, Stéphane, --- Mallarmé, Stephane --- Mallarmé, Stéphane --- Mallarmé, Stéphane, --- Art and literature --- Politics and literature

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Indic literature --- Literature and society --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History