English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Russian & Soviet Philosophy, 20th Century Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism, Satire - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Irish Fiction & Prose
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Booker (English, U. of Arkansas) offers a reading of Irish author O'Brien's major works within the context of the carnivalesque ambivalence of Menippean satire and of Mikhail Bakhtin's work in general. After placing O'Brien in an Irish context and relating his work to that of Beckett, he looks at five of O'Brien's major works, demonstrating that his vision in not unequivocally pessimistic. He then compares O'Brien to modern writers including Kafka, Conrad, Queneau, Garcia Marquez, and Bulgakov. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 31, 1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pages
200
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780815626657