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The Strange Library.

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Vatra Literară
Keywords: Annelies Verbeke; Jonathan Coe; outlandish novel; subject matter; style; narrative construction; insomnia

Summary/Abstract: Not only professional readers, but readers in general may be, sometimes or oftentimes, fascinated both by classical, respectable, famous books and by unusual, strange, atypical, exotic works (and the list of qualifiers could go on). I prefer to call these books simply outlandish. This essay analyses three such outlandish novels, as regards both their subject matter and their style. The two novels are indicative of new tendencies emerging in contemporary fiction.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 36-38
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian