Titlebook: Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction; Paula Martín Salván (Associate Professor of Englis Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8146-2 community of lovers—seldom theorized. and yet deserving closer attention due to its disruptive potential. Maurice Blanchot considers the community of lovers as an “antisocial society or association” since its ultimate goal is “the destruction of society” (33, 48). Jean-Luc Nancy, in turn, acknowled

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S. Paramithiotis,L. Bosnea,M. Mataragas be sketched: conflict is often articulated in terms of an incompatibility between individual and common interest that can only be resolved through a personal sacrifice—an act of true commitment—meant to restore the stability of (legitimate or spurious) communitarian interests. The present chapter a

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59319-6stination—which makes the notion of community particularly engaging for its analysis. The three novels—., 1981; ., 1985; and ., 1988—deal with various communities, such as the university, the family, religious groups, scientists, humanists, artists and lovers. The interplay between the individual an

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287549 between the artist and his/her national community. Comparing her self- imposed exile in London to Joyce’s voluntary exile from Ireland, O’Brien has claimed that living away from her native place has been essential for her “self-protection,” as it has guaranteed her finding of the necessary “silence

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,South Africa’s International Relations, that communities—in the widely accepted sense of a group of individuals with common interests, characteristics or goals—are generally absent in Coetzee’s works, or appear only in the background, as in the case of the unnamed political regime in ., the Afrikaner community in . or the academic commun