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One hundred maps exposing the fascinating connections between literature and space

About the Author

Franco Moretti is the author of many books, including Graphs, Maps, Trees; The Bourgeois; and Distant Reading, winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab.

Reviews

With intellectual elegance, Moretti invites us to use maps, not as all-encompassing solutions, but as generators of ideas.
*Umberto Eco*

Moretti ... is a seductive, stylish guide. One has the powerful sense of reading the results of concentrated thought: every page contains an aphoristic insight ... The reader is smuggled across borders that flash by in the dark ... The Atlas of the European Novel is a wonderful achievement: a visual pleasure as much as a textual one; a work in the vanguard of a new critical school that marries grand theory with a punctuating wit.
*The Guardian*

A genuine and useful and inspired work of aesthetic investigation ... it will have a massive importance, not only to critics, but more importantly, to writers.
*New York Press*

. . . a frequently brilliant and almost always eye-opening book.
*Washington City Paper*