The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain
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English | ISBN: 0674260104 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 0674260104 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 20 MB
“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the osmotic links between political journalism and literary fiction―salutary reading in the English-speaking countries, where politics and literature are still regarded as strangers to each other.”―Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide
A new history of contemporary Spanish fiction through the prism of novelists’ newspaper columns.
Public intellectuals come in many different stripes, but most of them gain a following at least in part from their writing, whether in the form of magazine articles, newspaper columns, or full-length nonfiction. A few―James Baldwin and Joan Didion are celebrated examples―start out as novelists before turning to the rough-and-tumble of current affairs. In
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