Zeno Vernyik (EDT) Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel

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Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestlers Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestlers novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levenes Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestlers novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestlers novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.