The Tragic Vision - Literary Interpretation - by Murray Krieger - Hardcover Book

The Tragic Vision: Variations on a Theme in Literary Interpretation
by Murray Krieger
published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960
First Edition, First Printing

hardcover in good used condition

"What is the difference between 'tragedy' and 'tragic vision'? Murray Krieger uses the ancient Greek definition of tragedy - catharsis through pity and fear - to begin his discussion. He explains the modern view of the term as an author's "psychology, his view and version of reality". A tentative but not entirely arbitrary definition of the term is created. As a means for illuminating the chaotic state in which man finds himself this book attempts to explain 'tragic vision' in terms of the author's discovery of its existence in modern literature. In his discussion of the works of writers such as Gide, Mann, Kafka, Camus and Dostoevski and others."