{"type":"standard","title":"The Oasis (novel)","displaytitle":"The Oasis (novel)","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q17008685","titles":{"canonical":"The_Oasis_(novel)","normalized":"The Oasis (novel)","display":"The Oasis (novel)"},"pageid":39389219,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/TheOasis.jpg","width":258,"height":375},"originalimage":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/TheOasis.jpg","width":258,"height":375},"lang":"en","dir":"ltr","revision":"1282999861","tid":"18b25e48-0ce1-11f0-9ba5-e5d05799fb5a","timestamp":"2025-03-29T21:02:17Z","description":"1949 novel by Mary McCarthy","description_source":"local","content_urls":{"desktop":{"page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)","revisions":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)?action=history","edit":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)?action=edit","talk":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Oasis_(novel)"},"mobile":{"page":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)","revisions":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/The_Oasis_(novel)","edit":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)?action=edit","talk":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Oasis_(novel)"}},"extract":"The Oasis is a short satirical novel by the American writer Mary McCarthy, published by Random House in 1949. McCarthy describes this, her second novel, as a \"conte philosophique\". It tells the story of a group of embattled intellectuals, their quest to establish a Utopian community in the mountains of New England, and their failure to surmount ideological and personal differences for the greater good of the commune. Doubling as a roman à clef, The Oasis borrows heavily from McCarthy's experiences and frustrations with the short lived European-American Group, and serves more broadly as a critique of the “abstract idealism of intellectuals” and their inability to enact actual change.","extract_html":"
The Oasis is a short satirical novel by the American writer Mary McCarthy, published by Random House in 1949. McCarthy describes this, her second novel, as a \"conte philosophique\". It tells the story of a group of embattled intellectuals, their quest to establish a Utopian community in the mountains of New England, and their failure to surmount ideological and personal differences for the greater good of the commune. Doubling as a roman à clef, The Oasis borrows heavily from McCarthy's experiences and frustrations with the short lived European-American Group, and serves more broadly as a critique of the “abstract idealism of intellectuals” and their inability to enact actual change.
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