Download or read book The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain written by Barbara J. Eckstein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, John Hawkes's Travesty, and others.