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Overview"This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the ""dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts"", setting a theme of Dante's ""Inferno"" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that could be described as sadistic. Reilly traces what he calls this ""punitive spirit"" to a character in the ""Inferno"", Vanni Fucci, who suffering himself does his best to make Dante suffer too. Through the study he uses the ""Inferno"" as a guide to the prevailing attitudes in modern fiction, revealing a parallel between the prohibition of pity within the medieval poem and in the pages of modern texts." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick ReillyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138715301ISBN 10: 1138715301 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 11 November 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsLands of darkness; Dostoyevsky; Hardy; Conrad; Wharton; Kafka; West; Camus; Waugh; O'Connor.ReviewsAuthor InformationPatrick Reilly Author Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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