Studies in Narrative: 20th and 21st Century Favorites | Crnkovic | TTh 3:30-5:20 | 14465 |
What makes a novel so special that it ends up 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 popularity. Writers include Hemingway, Baldwin, Steinbeck, Le Carre, Hrabal, Krieza and Onnepalu.