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| This book is about the ambition, in a set of paradigmatic writers of the twentieth century, to simultaneously enlist and break the spell of the real-their fascination with the spectacle of violence and sufferingand the difficulties involved in capturing this kind of excess by aesthetic means. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||