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01.02.2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Verso, 2021, 297 pp., ISBN: 978-1839763854

verfasst von: Kevin Power

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 1/2023

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Art is not the slave of history but our only weapon against it. Artists themselves have always known this, though it has not always been fashionable, or politically wise, for them to say so. Tom Stoppard, in his play Travesties (1974), has James Joyce say it, in Zurich, in the midst of the First World War. “The temples are built and brought down around [the artist], continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities” (Stoppard 2017 ed., p. 32). …

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Metadaten
Titel
Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Verso, 2021, 297 pp., ISBN: 978-1839763854
verfasst von
Kevin Power
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2023
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 1/2023
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00812-5

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