Pricking Us into Revolt?: Vonnegut, DeLillo and Sartre's Hope for Literature
As seen in his enthusiastic praise of John Dos Passos's 1919, Sartre evaluated literary works by how effectively they aim to play a role in fundamental social change. This essay has two goals. One is to show that Sartre's endorsement of committed literature is not undercut if literature fa...
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