Enlightening in its investigations into writers and philosophers who contributed to Beckett's intellectual progress. Casanova does add something significant to the enormous existing canon of Beckett information. -- John Calder * Islington Tribune * Fascinating, contentious. -- John Banville * New York Review of Books * Praise for The World Republic of Letters:
Nothing like this has been attempted before. The World Republic of Letters is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism. -- Perry Anderson * London Review of Books * Praise for The World Republic of Letters:
A brilliant, groundbreaking book.Casanova's work amounts to a radical remapping of global literary space The breadth of her scholarship here is staggering: from South America to North Africa, Eastern Europe to East Asia; from the emergent Modernism of Ibsen andYeats to the most recent postcolonial hybridities; from 'assimilationists' like Naipul and Cioran to 'rebels' like Neruda and Achebe. She has created a map of global literary power relations where none had existed, and she has raised a host of further questions. -- William Deresiewicz * Nation * Praise for The World Republic of Letters:
An excellent book. Today's international space, as Casanova sees it, is created through a rivalry between the growing number of nations eager to establish a literary prestige, promoting their poets and novelists internationally with the help of government institutions. -- Tim Park * Times Literary Supplement * Praise for The World Republic of Letters:
This book, which unlike many other works of literary theory is written with exemplary lucidity, represents a milestone in the history of modern literary thought. -- Terry Eagleton * New Statesman *
