Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Conrad, Mann, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Pirandello, Woolf, and Kafka are the subjects of this excellent introduction to modernism. The lives and literary careers of these masters are presented in a series of vivid, highly readable profiles which are accessible to the 'common reader.' They are presented by a writer who is not only a widely known novelist but himself a fine scholar of modernism. Bradbury offers his readers various approaches to his subject, mercifully free of academic jargon and posturing." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)