The Year in World Literature (Vol. 119) | The Year in World Literatureby William Riggan
The Year in World Literature by William Riggan
Despite the awarding of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature to a European—the Portuguese novelist José Saramago—and the presentation of the 1998 Neustadt Prize for Literature to an anglophone African—the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah—the prevailing international winds came from the East in the literary year 1998, with strong showings from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia leading the way.
The first-ever English version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's November 1916 appeared as the second "knot" in the Russian Nobel laureate's monumental epic The Red Wheel, a vivid and sweeping panorama of Imperial Russia at war on the eve of revolution, from an author dubbed by one critic as "the dominant writer of the twentieth century." From humble huts and dingy urban apartments to the opulent drawing rooms and palaces of the Czar, from the dark dens of revolutionary conspirators to the...
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