“We are trained to be cynical”: Arthur Koestler’s the call-Girls as a campus novel

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dc.contributor.authorVernyik, Zénó
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-23T06:36:22Z
dc.date.available2019-08-23T06:36:22Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractArthur Koestler’s The Call-Girls (1972) is, at present, mostly ignored, or if discussed, either dismissed wholesale, or approached only in terms of its role in the development of Koestler’s political and philosophical thinking. The aim of this analysis is to show that it is possible to interpret the text as a highly specific campus novel, limited to a single setting: an academic conference. Although the conference’s topic is “saving the world,” the novel’s characters neither achieve that aim, nor get any closer to a solution. Therefore, the book can be taken for a satirical treatment of the hypocrisy and futility of academic conferences, rather than a political plea, as previously understood.cs
dc.format.extent21 strancs
dc.identifier.doi10.5817/BSE2018-2-10
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.tul.cz/handle/15240/153234
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/333484994_We_are_trained_to_be_cynical_Arthur_Koestler's_The_Call-Girls_as_a_campus_novel
dc.language.isocscs
dc.relation.ispartofBrno Studies in English
dc.subjectconferencescs
dc.subjectfictioncs
dc.subjectacademic novelcs
dc.subjectcampus novelcs
dc.subjectArthur Koestlercs
dc.title“We are trained to be cynical”: Arthur Koestler’s the call-Girls as a campus novelcs
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local.citation.epage175
local.citation.spage157
local.relation.issue2
local.relation.volume44
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