Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium

“The aims of this book invite sympathy. … its method is empirical, starting from ‘novels, not theories about them’, and the author disclaims any ‘absolutist theoretical universalism’. His study is ‘Eurocentred’ but not ‘Eurocentric’, a distinction that deserves to be widely adopted. … here Ellison offers his original contribution … . He has succeeded in saying something fresh about Se-bald, no easy achievement, and has offered a general argument which others may fruitfully extend.” (Ritchie Robertson, Modern Language Review, Vol. 118 (3), July, 2023)