EUGENE, Ore., June 7, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Comparative literature scholar, independent critic, and author Paul Green offers literary aficionados a special treat in Studies in European Fiction, a majestic anthology of European essays that were written at various times in recent history.
Studies in European Fiction is an opulent volume which spotlights on the immortals of European literature and their iconic brand of fiction. The introduction serves as provenance, apologia, register of afterthoughts, and criticisms. This great assemblage of selected essays is a collection that many readers have continuously admired. For essay enthusiasts, they have acknowledged these as remarkable works of art -- the end products of extensive scholarly work and critical exactitude. Besides the Dostoevsky duo, this work contains dual comparative essays -- the first an influence study and the second, an affinity study. The Dickens and Kafka essays are samples from extensive work on Our Mutual Friend and Kafka's oeuvre. Get a copy now and discover an insightful commentary on a fascinating facet of European literature.
About the Author
Paul John Green was born in 1936 in Seattle, Washington, and is now an independent critic and scholar in comparative literature, emergent creative writer, and armchair activist residing in Eugene, Oregon. He has co-edited one book and edited another, and is the author of The Life of Jack Gray: An Education in Living and in Love, The Song of Eugene with Translations from the Poetry of Heinrich Heine and Rene Char, a number of limited-edition scholarly books and minibooks, articles, notes, reviews, bibliographies, letters, other poems, and an abstract. And he is increasingly moving into non-belletristic terrain.
Studies in European Fiction * by Paul Green
Swift-Voltaire, Fielding-Manzoni, Dickens, A Dostoevsky Duo, and Kafka
Publication Date: December 29, 2006
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