During the early 2000s it came to be representative of the new Russian literary preoccupation with the theme of citizenship and the problems of personal historical memory and historical self-image.

He wrote about poker, oil riggers, rock climbing and other muscular subjects quite removed from his previous literary preoccupations.

Though Orthodox Judaism remains his literary preoccupation, he does not exclude the possibility that eventually he may diversify his subjects.

Soon after the attacks, critics began asking what would become of two literary preoccupations of the 90's: the tone called "irony" and the genre called, with more justice, the social novel.

Still, von Kurowsky was Hemingway's first love and her rejection triggered his literary preoccupation with romantic loss.

The literary preoccupations, however, are surprising because they juxtapose appreciations of writers as different, or as seemingly different, as Joseph Conrad and Mario Puzo.

Seeing oneself as a protagonist in the text of one's life may be related to literary preoccupations with the difference between living and telling.

One of her literary preoccupations was to explore the very springs of folklore.

Certain books remind her of some of this century's literary preoccupations, "from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War, from Hemingway to the Bloomsbury circle."