Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-230) and index.
Contents
The kindness of novels : Roland Barthes -- The comedy of ignorance : Samuel Beckett -- Politics in paradise : Julio Cortazar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas -- The motive for metaphor : Milan Kundera -- The promised land : Italo Calvino -- A postmodernist romance : Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The mind has mountains : Toni Morrison -- Tigers and mirrors : Angela Carter -- All the rage : Stephen King -- Lost paradises : Edward Said -- The discourse of others : Kazuo Ishiguro -- The nightmare of narrative : Jeanette Winterson.
