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In praise of antiheroes : figures and themes in modern European literature, 1830-1980 / Victor Brombert.

Brombert, Victor H.
1999
809.93352 B868i 1999
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Title
In praise of antiheroes : figures and themes in modern European literature, 1830-1980 / Victor Brombert.
Author
Brombert, Victor H.
ISBN
0226075524 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imprint
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
[10], 168 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
809.93352 B868i 1999
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39633932
Summary
A book tracing the rise of the antihero in modern literature. The author defines him as someone whose courage displays our own needs and deficiencies. For example, he achieves dignity through humiliation, or suffers a reversal through his honesty.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
ch. 1. Unheroic modes
ch. 2. Georg Büchner: the idiom of antiheroism
ch. 3. Gogol's "The Overcoat": the meanings of a downfall
ch. 4. Dostoevsky's underground man: portrait of the paradoxalist
ch. 5. Flaubert's "A Simple Heart": pathos and irony
ch. 6. Italo Svevo, or the paradoxes of the antihero
ch. 7. Idiot Schweik or in praise of cunning
ch. 8. Max Frisch: the courage of failure
ch. 9. Voice of Camus: neither saint nor hero
ch. 10. Primo Levi and the canto of Ulysses.
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