Twentieth Century European Literature (Anuradha Bhattacharyya)

Twentieth Century European Literature: a Cultural Baggage  by Anuradha Bhattacharyya

CONTENTS


Introduction


1. Surrealism and Symbolization in Strindberg 1
2. Surrealism and Absurdism in Franz Kafka 17
3. Kafka and the Common Man 33
4. Pirandello’s Thesis 47
5. The Six Characters and the Taboo of Virginity 61
6. God in Albert Camus 69
7. Albert Camus’s Views on the Role of the Artist 79
8. Existentialism and Bertolt Brecht 89
9. Life of Galileo and Totalitarian Ideology 109
10. Brecht’s Mother Courage 127
11. Politics and the Theatre (Brecht, Piscator and Weiss) 137
12. The Twentieth Century Drama Summed-up in Marat/Sade 161
13. Revolution and Madness in Marat/Sade 175
14. The Postmodern Era of MS Word 187
15. Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum 211
16. Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel 221

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