When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is 'survival and victims'. Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.
Margaret Atwood ist die Queen der kanadischen Literatur. (Literarische Welt) AUTHORBIO: Margaret Atwoods Bücher gehören zur Weltliteratur und erschienen in mehr als 30 Ländern. Ihr Roman Alias Grace (BV 1996) gewann den kana dischen Giller Prize und den Premio Mondello in Italien. Für Der blinde Mörder (BV 2000, BvT 2002) erhielt sie den Booker Prize. 2005 wurde sie für den ersten Man Booker International Prize nominiert. Im Berlin Verlag erschienen zuletzt Die Penelopiade (2005), Das Zelt (2006), Moralische Unordnung und Payback (beide 2008). Margaret Atwood lebt in Toronto.
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