Alberto Comparini on The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947

[Dave Monroe]

https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/the-questionable-orthodoxy-of-genres

The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947
Stefano Ercolino

The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in
Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. The Novel-Essay,
1884-1947 focuses on this literary genre and makes the case that is
crucial for a renovated understanding of the history of the novel in
modernity. Stefano Ercolino frames the emergence of the novel-essay
within the ideological crisis that fell upon the epistemological and
symbolic apparatus of modernity in the last decades of the nineteenth
century and culminated following the disasters first of World War I
and subsequently of World War II.

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-novelessay-18841947-stefano-ercolino/?isb=9781137404107

Stefano Ercolino

Stefano Ercolino is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at
Underwood International College, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). A
former Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University (USA) and DAAD
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative
Literature of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), he is the author
of The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and
The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s "Gravity’s Rainbow" to
Roberto Bolaño’s "2666" (London-New York: 2014; Milan: Bompiani,
2015).

https://lareviewofbooks.org/author/stefano-ercolino
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