Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war

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"A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win...

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Main Author: White, Duncan, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers ; 2019.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Espionage in literature
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
Cold War in literature
Politics and literature
Authors > 20th century > Biography
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century.
Authors
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
Literature, Modern
Biography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • SPAIN: Orwell & Koestler, 1937
  • TRIALS: Babel, McCarthy, 1934-39
  • WAR: Philby, Greene, Hemingway, Orwell & Koestler, 1934-45
  • DIVISION: Orwell, McCarthy, Akhamatova, Koestler, Fast, Spender & Philby, 1945-57
  • ESCALATION: Greene, Solzhenitsyn, Wright, Pasternak, 1950-60
  • CRISIS: Greene, LeCarré, 1957-63
  • RECKONING: Sinyavsky, Spender, McCarthy, 1964-72
  • UNRAVELING: Solzhenitsyn, Belli, Havel, 1968-91.

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