An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-century LiteratureSven Birkerts explores the impacts of two world wars and the collapse of the assumption of Humanism on a diverse group of modern writers, bringing to light the aspect of a world literature promoting an international perspective. Photographs. |
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Introduction | 11 |
GermanLanguage Fiction | 23 |
Russian Writers | 99 |
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