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Stranger than FictionCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781911717218 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth century novel and how it shaped the form for years to come A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future For more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781911717218
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


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A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the form for years to come



A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future




For more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed publisher New York Review Books. In Stranger than Fiction, he offers a legendary editor's survey of the key works that defined the twentieth-century novel.




Starting with Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Frank shows how its twitchy, self-undermining narrator established a voice that would echo through the coming century. He illuminates Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's reinvention of the American sentence; Colette and Andre Gide's subversions of traditional gender roles; and the monumental ambitions of works such as Mrs Dalloway, The Magic Mountain and The Man Without Qualities to encompass their times. Also included are Japan's Natsume Soseki and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, as well as Vasily Grossman, Hans Erich Nossack and Elsa Morante. Later chapters range from Ralph Ellison and Marguerite Yourcenar to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and WG Sebald.




Frank makes sense of the century by mixing biographical portraiture, cultural history and close encounters with great works of art. In so doing he renews our appreciation of the paradigmatic art form of our times.
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