Masterplots II.: The seizure of powerFrank Northen Magill Examines the themes, characters, plots, style, and technique of 347 works by authors from the non-English speaking countries of the world, including Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Russia. |
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acters Ah Q Ahasuerus Andrés artist Basini beauty becomes century child Claude Simon Critical Context daughter death Dino Buzzati Donissan Dovlatov dreams Drogo Endō English translation father feels fiction finally finds Further Study German Globov Hadji Hamsun Handke human Isaac Bashevis Singer Japan Japanese Jean Jewish Jews Johannes Kawabata Komako Lao Ts'an literary literature lives Louis lover Lucien Mitani Mizoguchi Montès mother murder narrative narrator narrator's novel Novel Principal characters novelist Pär Lagerkvist Peter Handke prison protagonist published Queneau Rajka reader realism reality realizes relationship Russian Sanin Schaumann seems sense sexual Shimamura Shklovsky Shridaman Shusaku Endō Siddhartha Simenon Sinyavsky Sinyavsky's social Socialist Realism society Sources for Further Soviet story Sutter's Gold takes Themes and Meanings Thérèse Raquin tion Tobias Törless Torrents of Spring Type of plot Tzili Viktor Shklovsky village West Berlin wife woman women writer xala young Zazie