The Novel: 20th & 21st-Century Favorites (W/Slav 490 & C.Lit 570) | Crnkovic | TTh 3:30-5:20 | 14198 |
What makes a novel so special that it ends on the "10 Books I Must Have on a Desert Island" list of generations upon generations of readers across the world? We shall look at a few very special novels and at the relationship between their aesthetic excellence and their decades-long global popularity. Writers include Hemingway, Baldwin, Steinbeck, Le Carré, Hrabal, Krleža, and Onnepalu.