Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-146) and index.
Contents
A spontaneous life -- Existential fiction: The sheltering sky and Let it come down -- Postcolonial fiction: The spider's house and short stories -- Detective fiction: short stories and Up above the world -- Surrealism and extraordinary consciousness -- Travel writing and historical fiction: Their heads are green and their hands are blue and Points in time -- Unwelcome words and other late works.