Politics and Fiction

Robert Boyers, a professor of English at Skidmore College and editor of Salmagundi, an intellectual quarterly, offers in the first two chapters of this critical study what he calls a “fluid definition” of the political novel since 1945. He then discusses novelists he deems to have contributed notable examples of the genre: V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nadine Gordimer, Jorge Semprun, George Steiner, Giinter Grass, an...