Două forme productive în anii 1990 şi 2000: eclectismul postmodern şi autoficţiunea by Cătălin Sturza

“…The Autofiction is illustrated by the debut novel of Ionuţ Chiva, 69, by Ioana Bradea’s debut novel, Băgău; and by Claudia Golea’s Vară în Siam. …”
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Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men by James Peacock

“…Keith Gessen’s debut novel is not a “post-9/11” text in the manner of Falling Man or Terrorist. …”
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We Are Already Ghosts: Reflections on Composition by Kit Dobson

“…In this piece, author and critic Kit Dobson discusses and analyzes the composition of his debut novel, We Are Already Ghosts (University of Calgary Press, 2024). …”
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Analysis of the Narrative and Its Connection with the Theme in Cheraghha Ra Man Khamoosh Mekonam by Timoor Malmir, Hosein Asadijozani

“…Cheraghha Ra Man Khamoosh Mekonam (I Will Turn off the Lights) is Zoya Pirzad's debut novel revolving on the theme of loneliness and the boredom ensuing from this loneliness. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…Justin Torres’s 2011 debut novel We the Animals performs Puerto Rican queer masculinity at the precise moment when the first formal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as expressed by then Attorney General Eric Holder, intersect with growing and increasingly aggressive hostility towards Latinx in the United States regardless of their legal status, and when Puerto Ricans on the island continue to be second class citizens ineligible, for example, to participate in presidential elections. …”
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With Collies Graven on His Heart: The Canine Projections of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) by Peter Merchant

“…Anstey’ as his nom de plume, Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934) scored a striking success with his début novel Vice Versâ (1882). On a necessarily smaller scale, he then repeated the feat months later with his short story ‘The Black Poodle’. …”
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