“Journey to the Edge of the Soviet Night”: Towards the History of the Publication of L.-F. Céline’s Debut Novel in the USSR by Dmitry M. Tsyganov

“…The article focuses on the translation and publication of L.-F. Céline’s debut novel Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) as an example from the history of Soviet cultural diplomacy in the 1930s. …”
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Writing on the Borderline: Nathan Filer (The Shock of the Fall) and Marjorie Celona (Y) by Catherine Rovera

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Paradise Lost / Paradise Found, Motherland Lost, Motherland Found? The Images of Poland and Germany in the Debut Novel of Alexandra Tobor Sitzen vier Polen im Auto.... by Eliza Szymańska

“… The subject of the following analysis is the debut novel by Alexandra Tobor, a representative of „young prose with Polish roots“ within the German Literature. …”
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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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The writing of Arthur Fula: modernity, language, place and religion by Hein Willemse

“…Arthur Fula's debut novel Jôhannie giet die beeld (Lit: Johannesburg moulds the graven image) was well received in the beginning of 1954 but has in recent years been largely forgotten. …”
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William Golding’s Apocalyptic Vision in Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin by Chatterjee Arnab

“…Keeping with such trends, this paper would like to trace this line of apocalyptic vision and subsequent hopes of renewal with reference to William Golding’s debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954) and his Pincher Martin (1956). …”
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Citazioni all’opposizione. Rimandi intertestuali in Saša Sokolov by Noemi Albanese

“…"Škola dlja durakov" ("A School for Fools"), Saša Sokolov's debut novel, which was first published in 1976, is a fine example of a Modernist work. …”
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American War / by El Akkad, Omar, 1982-, author

“… "An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. …”

PS, I Love You / by Ahern, Cecelia, 1981- 319498

“…A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout:\nCecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumour. …”

The Mexican Pas de Trois of Flann O’Brien, Graham Greene, and Shirley Temple: The Background to At Swim-Two-Birds’s Back Cover Blurb by Pádraig Ó Méalóid

“…Pádraig Ó Méalóid investigates the circumstances under which one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, came to write a blurb for the back cover of the first edition of Flann O’Brien’s debut novel At Swim-Two-Birds, published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1939.…”
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Teorijske fikcije. Ligotti, Negarestani i spekulativni realizam by Bekavac, Luka

“…This paper outlines two cases of horror writers using philosophy as a narrative strategy and a means of diversifying their audiences: Ligotti, whose texts undermine genre borderlines by way of metafiction, and Negarestani, who explicitly defines his debut novel as postgenre horror or “theoretical fiction”.…”
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The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga by Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri

“…The White Tiger Aravinda Adiga HarperCollins Indiao 2009   Aravind Adiga’s wry and satirical debut novel The White Tiger, takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. …”
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NARRATIVE FORM AND PALIMPSESTIC MEMORY IN NAMWALI SERPELL’S THE OLD DRIFT by Angelo Monaco

“…This essay explores Namwali Serpell’s debut novel The Old Drift (2019) through the lens of ‘palimpsestic memory’, contending that the novel articulates an interconnectedness between memory and migration. …”
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За смъртта на разказвача в маранята на магическия реализъм. Наблюдения върху творчеството на Георги Марковски... by Angelova, Maia

“…The analysis is based on the author’s debut novel Sensemaya (1971) and its version from 1978, named Portrait with a blue bird.…”
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I ‘nuovi cittadini tedeschi’ e il dibattito sulla singolarità dell’Olocausto. Su «Adas Raum» di Sharon Dodua Otoo by Dora Rusciano

“… This paper aims to investigate the relevance of Sharon Dodua Otoo’s debut novel Adas Raum in the ongoing Historikerstreit 2.0. …”
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Words and/without Bodies: The Incorporation of the Word as Poetological Imagery in Texts by Bohumil Hrabal and Jáchym Topol by Anna Förster

“…It further suggests that we understand the protagonist and narrator of Topol’s debut novel Sestra, Potok, not as a genuine literary character but rather as an allegorized reference to Hrabal poetological imagery.…”
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The subject of humanity and historical memory in the harmony of silk factory by Fan, P.W., Yeoh, K.K., Fan, P..

“…The Harmony of Silk Factory is the debut novel of Tash Aw, who grew up in Malaysia, and is now living in London. …”

James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City by José Manuel Estévez-Saá

“…James Stephens and James Joyce have been mentioned as referents for Caitriona Lally’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Eggshells (2015). The present contribution intends to study this new brilliant rendering of the city of Dublin through the eyes of allegedly ‘changeling’ Vivian, whose Joycean creative musings on language serve her to portray contemporary Dublin, as well as to imaginatively project portals to other worlds where she can feel more at ease.…”
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Per un nuovo itinerario gergale nella letteratura del secondo '900: «Lo sbarbato» di Umberto Simonetta («L'angolo dell'italiano, 1)» by Luca Bellone

“…The paper aims to analyse the original linguistic aspect that characterizes Umberto Simonetta’s debut novel, Lo sbarbato (1963), with particular attention to the jargon component at the base of the dialogue between the young protagonists of the work.…”
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Engagement for Engagement’s Sake by Aukje van Rooden

“…Taking the Dutch poet laurate Lieke Marsman's debut novel Het tegenovergestelde van een mens (The opposite of a human being) as an exemplary case study, this paper stresses that the literature of the millennial generation explores a new and different form of engagement, a form that is consonant with our 21st century living conditions, that are more complex, fluid, and volatile than they have ever been. …”
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