Introduction
Part 1: The Spanish Civil War
1. Commentary: The Spanish Labyrinth
2. Malraux: Days of Hope
3. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Dos Passos: Betrayal
5. Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
6. Koestler: Sentence of Death
Part 2: The God That Failed
7. Commentary: The Soviet Trials
8. Beyond Darkness at Noon
9. Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev
10. Orwell: From Big Pig to Big Brother
11. Commentary: Totalitarianism, Ideology, Power
12. Sartre: History, Fiction and the Party
13. Commentary: Soviet Forced Labour Camps
14. Koestler: and the Little Flirts
15. Commentary: Fellow-Travellers
16. Greene: The Quiet American
Part 3: History and Fiction in the Soviet Orbit
17. Commentary: The Socialist Realist Novel from War to Cold
War
18. The Tragic Case of Vasily Grossman
19. Commentary: Collectivization
20. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
21. Chukovskaya: Honour among Women
22. Commentary: Purge and Terror
23. The Iron Fist: The Trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky
24. Foreign Affairs: The Menace of Kafka
25. Germany Doubly Divided: Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson
Part 4: Solzhenitsyn
26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
27. The First Circle
28. Commentary: Stalin and Lenin in Soviet Fiction
29. From Cancer Ward to The Gulag Archipelago
30. Commentary: Bureaucracy, the New Class and Double Standards
31. Vladimov: Faithful Ruslan
Part 5: The American Novel and the New Politics
32. Commentary: Fiction, the New Journalism, and the Postmodern
33. Mailer: The Armies of the Night
34. Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover
Conclusion
References and Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
David Caute is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Henry Fellow at Harvard. A visiting professor at Columbia, NYU and University of California, Irvine, his most recent work is The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War.
-[A]n exhaustive analysis of Cold War fiction is created, read, and
criticized in the context of the last century's most rhetorical of
conflicts.- --Olga Voronina, The Russian Review
-Agreeing with Irving Howe's contention that the political novel
flourishes in times of civil turmoil, the prolific Caute sweeps
through the work of 30-plus authors who reflected the Cold War
experience from the Spanish Civil War to the late 1970s... The
book's strength is its reach beyond Western European writing
(Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Uwe Johnson, and others) to Soviet
writing (in addition to Solzhenitsyn, Victor Serge, Vasily
Grossman, Boris Pasternak, Lydia Chukovskaya, et al.), thus
exposing Anglo-American readers to Soviet writing... Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general
readers.- --B. Diemert, Choice -As the memory of the horrors of
Stalinism fades with the disappearance of those that lived through
it, it will be the novels that were generated by the Cold War that
will shape historical understanding. David Caute's new book will
fascinate and inform readers, providing them with the context and
insights they need to make sense of this important genre of
literature.- --Harvey Klehr
-Caute's new book is the most authoritative study to date of
politics and literature during the Cold War and one of the wisest
and witties books of cultural criticism to appear for many years.-
--John Gray, Literary Review
"[A]n exhaustive analysis of Cold War fiction is created, read, and
criticized in the context of the last century's most rhetorical of
conflicts." --Olga Voronina, The Russian Review
"Agreeing with Irving Howe's contention that the political novel
flourishes in times of civil turmoil, the prolific Caute sweeps
through the work of 30-plus authors who reflected the Cold War
experience from the Spanish Civil War to the late 1970s... The
book's strength is its reach beyond Western European writing
(Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Uwe Johnson, and others) to Soviet
writing (in addition to Solzhenitsyn, Victor Serge, Vasily
Grossman, Boris Pasternak, Lydia Chukovskaya, et al.), thus
exposing Anglo-American readers to Soviet writing... Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general
readers." --B. Diemert, Choice "As the memory of the horrors of
Stalinism fades with the disappearance of those that lived through
it, it will be the novels that were generated by the Cold War that
will shape historical understanding. David Caute's new book will
fascinate and inform readers, providing them with the context and
insights they need to make sense of this important genre of
literature." --Harvey Klehr
"Caute's new book is the most authoritative study to date of
politics and literature during the Cold War and one of the wisest
and witties books of cultural criticism to appear for many years."
--John Gray, Literary Review
"Agreeing with Irving Howe's contention that the political novel
flourishes in times of civil turmoil, the prolific Caute sweeps
through the work of 30-plus authors who reflected the Cold War
experience from the Spanish Civil War to the late 1970s... The
book's strength is its reach beyond Western European writing
(Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Uwe Johnson, and others) to Soviet
writing (in addition to Solzhenitsyn, Victor Serge, Vasily
Grossman, Boris Pasternak, Lydia Chukovskaya, et al.), thus
exposing Anglo-American readers to Soviet writing... Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general
readers." --B. Diemert, Choice "As the memory of the horrors of
Stalinism fades with the disappearance of those that lived through
it, it will be the novels that were generated by the Cold War that
will shape historical understanding. David Caute's new book will
fascinate and inform readers, providing them with the context and
insights they need to make sense of this important genre of
literature." --Harvey Klehr
"Caute's new book is the most authoritative study to date of
politics and literature during the Cold War and one of the wisest
and witties books of cultural criticism to appear for many years."
--John Gray, Literary Review
"[A]n exhaustive analysis of Cold War fiction is created, read, and
criticized in the context of the last century's most rhetorical of
conflicts." --Olga Voronina, The Russian Review
"Agreeing with Irving Howe's contention that the political novel
flourishes in times of civil turmoil, the prolific Caute sweeps
through the work of 30-plus authors who reflected the Cold War
experience from the Spanish Civil War to the late 1970s... The
book's strength is its reach beyond Western European writing
(Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Uwe Johnson, and others) to Soviet
writing (in addition to Solzhenitsyn, Victor Serge, Vasily
Grossman, Boris Pasternak, Lydia Chukovskaya, et al.), thus
exposing Anglo-American readers to Soviet writing... Summing Up:
Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general
readers." --B. Diemert, Choice "As the memory of the horrors of
Stalinism fades with the disappearance of those that lived through
it, it will be the novels that were generated by the Cold War that
will shape historical understanding. David Caute's new book will
fascinate and inform readers, providing them with the context and
insights they need to make sense of this important genre of
literature." --Harvey Klehr
"Caute's new book is the most authoritative study to date of
politics and literature during the Cold War and one of the wisest
and witties books of cultural criticism to appear for many years."
--John Gray, Literary Review
"As the memory of the horrors of Stalinism fades with the
disappearance of those that lived through it, it will be the novels
that were generated by the Cold War that will shape historical
understanding. David Caute's new book will fascinate and inform
readers, providing them with the context and insights they need to
make sense of this important genre of literature. -Harvey Klehr
"[A]n exhaustive analysis of Cold War fiction is created, read, and
criticized in the context of the last century's most rhetorical of
conflicts."- Olga Voronina, The Russian Review
"As the memory of the horrors of Stalinism fades with the
disappearance of those that lived through it, it will be the novels
that were generated by the Cold War that will shape historical
understanding. David Caute's new book will fascinate and inform
readers, providing them with the context and insights they need to
make sense of this important genre of literature.-Harvey Klehr
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