Politics and the Novel During the Cold War

David Caute

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

Introduction Part 1: The Spanish Civil War 1. Commentary: The Spanish Labyrinth 2. Malraux: Days of Hope 3. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls 4. Dos Passos: Betrayal 5. Orwell: Homage to Catalonia 6. Koestler: Sentence of Death Part 2: The God That Failed 7. Commentary: The Soviet Trials 8. Beyond Darkness at Noon 9. Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev 10. Orwell: From Big Pig to Big Brother 11. Commentary: Totalitarianism, Ideology, Power 12. Sartre: History, Fiction and the Party 13. Commentary: Soviet Forced Labour Camps 14. Koestler: and the Little Flirts 15. Commentary: Fellow-Travellers 16. Greene: The Quiet American Part 3: History and Fiction in the Soviet Orbit 17. Commentary: The Socialist Realist Novel from War to Cold War 18. The Tragic Case of Vasily Grossman 19. Commentary: Collectivization 20. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago 21. Chukovskaya: Honour among Women 22. Commentary: Purge and Terror 23. The Iron Fist: The Trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky 24. Foreign Affairs: The Menace of Kafka 25. Germany Doubly Divided: Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson Part 4: Solzhenitsyn 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 27. The First Circle 28. Commentary: Stalin and Lenin in Soviet Fiction 29. From Cancer Ward to The Gulag Archipelago 30. Commentary: Bureaucracy, the New Class and Double Standards 31. Vladimov: Faithful Ruslan Part 5: The American Novel and the New Politics 32. Commentary: Fiction, the New Journalism, and the Postmodern 33. Mailer: The Armies of the Night 34. Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover Conclusion References and Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index