Rayner Heppenstall
Rayner Heppenstall (1911–81) was a poet, novelist, journalist, translator and broadcaster. He is remembered as a forerunner of the Nouveau Roman and a spiritual forefather to the neo-Modernist circle headed by B.S. Johnson in 1960s Britain.
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Impressions of Africa
The first of Roussel’s two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with t…
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Atala – René
By François-René de Chateaubriand
‘Atala’, published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with him. ‘René’, published the following year, is the seminal portrait of the sensitive and world-wea…
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