This learn re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a sort formed through its troublesome, frequently scandalous relation to the general public sphere. Discussing ten texts opposed to the demanding situations in their milieus, it considers twentieth-century fiction as a convention of transgression, perennially stuck among license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.
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