Anna-Louise Milne is Professor of French and Comparative Literature in the Department of French, International Politics and History at the University of London Institute in Paris. She is also the author of 75 (2016) and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris (2013), and she has recently co-authored The New Internationalists (2020) on the politics of contemporary solidarity. Russell Williams Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris. He is the author of Pathos, Poetry and Politics in Michel Houellebecq's Fiction (2020), and he writes regularly for publications including the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
'… reading the twelve essays in this collection is like taking a trip into the unknown, or to a recently discovered land, with an expert as guide … Each essay, written by an international scholar, gives life to the complex temporal and spatial dynamics of contemporary fiction … Essential.' C. B. Kerr, CHOICE