Proposes that a distinct strain of literary modernism emerged in Europe in response to historical catastrophe.

This study of tragic fiction in European modernism brings together novelists who espoused, in their view, a Greek vision of tragedy and a Darwinian vision of na

The Distance of Irish Modernism interrogates the paradox through which Irish modernist fictions have become containers for national and transnational histories

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particular

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and