Visit From the Goon Squad Reread

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ivan Kreilkamp is professor of English at Indiana University. His books include Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel (2018), and he is coeditor of Victorian Studies. He has published pop-music criticism in the Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

Zusammenfassung

Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.

Zusatztext

A creative and thoughtful account of Jennifer Egan’s 2010 novel . . . a very timely reflection upon A Visit from the Goon Squad, bringing Egan’s narrative skill and cultural commentary to our attention over a decade after the novel’s first publication.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ivan Kreilkamp, Kreilkamp Ivan
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780231187107
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18710-7
• Seiten: 184
• Serie: Rereadings
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, reading; literary criticism