TY - BOOK ID - 78145798 TI - The political novel PY - 2010 SN - 1282822039 9786612822032 1441138358 1441178627 9781441178626 9781441176394 144117639X 9781441148070 1441148078 9781282822030 6612822031 9781441138354 PB - New York Continuum DB - UniCat KW - Political fiction KW - Politics and literature. KW - Literature KW - Literature and politics KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145798 AB - Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning ER -