Books in the New Directions in European Writing series

An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and his reinterpretation of the mythologies which have nourished and sustained it.

This introduction to Primo Levi and his writing draws attention to the literary worth of Levi's output, not just the Holocaust testimonies for which he is primarily known. The text situates his works in the context of Italian culture and society from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Offers a systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek. The book provides a survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterize the author's writing.

This volume focuses on developments within national literature and in movements cutting across frontiers through the study of Patrick Modiano.

This literary study of Oriana Fallaci examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. It portrays Fallaci as a fully emancipated and successful woman in the man's world of political journalism, and focuses on her engagement as a writer with political and social issues.

Provides a critical analysis of post-Franco Spain's successful women novelists. These writers' works share woman-centered themes such as: family relationships, the search for self-fulfillment in a restrictive society, and the hope for the construction of a new world order. The author provides an overview of contemporary women's writing in Spain.

This text aims to provide a crictial discussion of the work of the French writer Annie Ernaux. It gives a chronological account of Ernaux's development as a writer, indicating the broad variations in narrative structure, language, and to a lesser extent, theme, which distinguish each text.

Places Villena's creative work in relation to the contemporary Spanish cultural scene, to 20th century homosexual culture and to gay and dissident figures of the past, including Lorca and Luis Cernuda. This book explains how he developed a radical aesthetic out of the old raw materials of love, sex, death, power, and the primacy of art and desire.