Politics and the Novel During the Cold War

David Caute is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Henry Fellow at Harvard. A visiting professor at Columbia, NYU and University of California, Irvine, his most recent work is The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War.

David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history

IntroductionPart 1: The Spanish Civil War1. Commentary: The Spanish Labyrinth2. Malraux: Days of Hope3. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls4. Dos Passos: Betrayal5. Orwell: Homage to Catalonia6. Koestler: Sentence of DeathPart 2: The God That Failed7. Commentary: The Soviet Trials8. Beyond Darkness at Noon9. Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev10. Orwell: From Big Pig to Big Brother11. Commentary: Totalitarianism, Ideology, Power12. Sartre: History, Fiction and the Party13. Commentary: Soviet Forced Labour Camps14. Koestler: and the Little Flirts15. Commentary: Fellow-Travellers16. Greene: The Quiet AmericanPart 3: History and Fiction in the Soviet Orbit17. Commentary: The Socialist Realist Novel from War to Cold War18. The Tragic Case of Vasily Grossman19. Commentary: Collectivization20. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago21. Chukovskaya: Honour among Women22. Commentary: Purge and Terror23. The Iron Fist: The Trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky24. Foreign Affairs: The Menace of Kafka25. Germany Doubly Divided: Christa Wolf and Uwe JohnsonPart 4: Solzhenitsyn26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich27. The First Circle28. Commentary: Stalin and Lenin in Soviet Fiction29. From Cancer Ward to The Gulag Archipelago30. Commentary: Bureaucracy, the New Class and Double Standards31. Vladimov: Faithful RuslanPart 5: The American Novel and the New Politics32. Commentary: Fiction, the New Journalism, and the Postmodern33. Mailer: The Armies of the Night34. Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E.L. Doctorow and Robert CooverConclusionReferences and NotesBibliographyName IndexSubject Index