The Novel
Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino
by André Brink
376 pages· 1998· ISBN 9781919713144
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The postmodernist novel is renowned for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language, but in this book the author argues that this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings.
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