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6 September 2010updated 28 Jun 2012 7:45am

Modernism still matters

Writers such as T S Eliot and Samuel Beckett worked in synchrony with continental Europeans

By Gabriel Josipovici

Writers such as T S Eliot and Samuel Beckett worked in synchrony with continental Europeans such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka, pushing against the limitations of art. Why have English-language writers turned away from this challenge?

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