The Broken Estate (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Wood
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Setting: Europe, England, and the United States
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Religion, Writing, Novelists, England or English people, Truth
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
For several years, James Wood has been attracting the attention of literature-oriented readers with provocative reviews and essays that have appeared in such publications as The New Republic and The London Review of Books. Now he has gathered twenty-one of them into a book that establishes him, at thirty-four, as one of the most cogent and erudite critics of modern fiction. In an examination of the work of such nineteenth century figures as Gustave Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Herman Melville, and Anton Chekhov, as well as currently working novelists, including Philip Roth,...
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