One hundred maps exposing the fascinating connections between literature and space
Franco Moretti is the author of many books, including Graphs, Maps, Trees; The Bourgeois; and Distant Reading, winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is Professor Emeritus at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab.
With intellectual elegance, Moretti invites us to use maps, not as
all-encompassing solutions, but as generators of ideas.
*Umberto Eco*
Moretti ... is a seductive, stylish guide. One has the powerful
sense of reading the results of concentrated thought: every page
contains an aphoristic insight ... The reader is smuggled across
borders that flash by in the dark ... The Atlas of the European
Novel is a wonderful achievement: a visual pleasure as much as a
textual one; a work in the vanguard of a new critical school that
marries grand theory with a punctuating wit.
*The Guardian*
A genuine and useful and inspired work of aesthetic investigation
... it will have a massive importance, not only to critics, but
more importantly, to writers.
*New York Press*
. . . a frequently brilliant and almost always eye-opening
book.
*Washington City Paper*
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