@inbook{8d5b506054e3429d9fa4addac1829d3b,
title = "The Dilemmas of {\textquoteleft}Post-Communism{\textquoteright}: Elizabeth Wilson{\textquoteright}s The Lost Time Caf{\'e}",
abstract = "Discussion of the merits and failings of socialism is one of the major features of post-1945 European literature. Although the literary right has dominated fiction in the West, left-wing writing has persisted into the twenty-first century, offering a powerful critique of the neoliberalism that has established control over continental integration. This essay examines this critique through a study of Elizabeth Wilson{\textquoteright}s The Lost Time Caf{\'e} (1993), a British dystopian thriller set at the millennium{\textquoteright}s end. Delving into the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Wilson argues that the radical tradition is necessary for understanding and solving the crises of the late twentieth-century, challenging the poverty, inequality and austerity of the post-welfarist European Union with a more socialist vision of united Europe.",
author = "Andrew Hammond",
note = "Andrew Hammomd, The Dilemmas of 'Post-Communism': Elizabeth Wilson{\textquoteright}s The Lost Time Caf{\'e}, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan UK, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137526267",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
language = "English",
isbn = "9781137526267",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "193--209",
editor = "Andrew Hammond",
booktitle = "The Novel and Europe",
}