Reading Contemporary Fiction. From Kafka to Ishiguro

The XXth century has turned out to be a paradise for narrative fiction and, above all, it has managed to gain ground from the elitism of the avant-garde. In the current fiction scenario contemporary classics such as Lessing, García Márquez, Philip Roth, Handke, Calvino, Nabokov or Robbe-Grillet, share the space with other fully consolidated authors that feed a market of hybrid genres, of literary fictions that flirt with commercial fictions, of digitization processes and new habits and reading supports.

A multiple faced book:
1) A wide selection of readings of the best universal fiction of the XX, grouped by aesthetic tendencies and literary attitudes
2) Concise and rigorous introductions to the great periods of fiction and art of the XXth century
3) A canon, a library proposal, from Kafka to Ishiguro
4) Multidisciplinary bibliographies and chronologies

A lifetime companion to the narrative of the XXth century