Monsters like us by Sandig, UA

“…This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. …”

'Movie-made generation': cinema-going and the novel in post-war Britain by McLaughlin, M

“…explains how John Braine's 'documentary' fiction engages with cinematic escapism, how Colin MacInnes incorporates cinema-going as an emblem of marginalisation, and how Alan Sillitoe positions cinema as a 'valid' literary influence; 'I Could Have Bitten Her' examines the influence of Philip Larkin's addiction to cinema in his debut novel, John Wain's investigation of the cinesthetic reification of the post-war novelist, and Kingsley Amis' extratextual and (surprisingly) feminist endeavours; 'Passionate Detachment' explores Muriel Spark's employment of cinema to represent a crisis in feminine ipseity, Lynne Reid Banks' use of 'sexist' cinema as a proto-feminist trope (in conjunction with an interview with Banks), and Iris Murdoch's relationship with cinema as 'Plato's Cave', which leads to refigurations of realism and feminist forms of escape.…”

« Comment peut-on être cochon ? » : darwinisme et conscience chez Darrieussecq by Kemp, S

“…And, most famously, in Darrieussecq’s debut novel we follow the narrator’s subjectivity as she metamorphoses between human and pig form and states undecidably in-between, during which process, we gradually realize, it is not only her physical form that is shifting but her mentality as well. …”