The Fiction of Politics

"We have numerous novels that allegorize or burlesque politics, few that convey it as a calling, a complex process demanding to be understood, or the means by which individual hopes and destinies, promises of social improvement, might be frustrated or fulfilled." Morris Dickstein writes on the development of the political novel from Dostoyevsky to Doctorow for Bookforum:

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