The Literature Book

279 See also: To Kill a Mockingbird 272–73 ■ The Armies of the Night 291 ■ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 332 POSTWAR WRITING an ...

ENDING AT EVERY MOMENT BUT NEVER ENDING ITS ENDING ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967), GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ US_280-285_Solit ...

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282 A s its name suggests, the Latin American boom was an explosion of literary creativity that occurred in South America in the ...

283 All Aureliano’s victories come to nothing however, as the country remains convulsed by conflict, a parody of the bloody stru ...

284 The misery inflicted on Macondo represents the centuries of pain caused by Western economic exploitation. Even a rainstorm t ...

285 in his grandmother’s stories and from an aunt who had a knack for offering fantastical explanations with the conviction of t ...

PAROLES (1946), JACQUES PRÉVERT Paroles (“Words”) is the first poetry collection by the French poet and screenwriter Prévert (19 ...

POSTWAR WRITING THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952), ERNEST HEMINGWAY Written during Hemingway’s stay in Cuba in 1951, The Old Man an ...

Juan Rulfo (1917–86) is a surreal, supernatural, and enigmatic story of grief, haunting memories, and deeply fraught relationshi ...

POSTWAR WRITING modern governmental procedures, basing many of his observations on his native Turkey. This major Turkish-languag ...

THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ (1962), CARLOS FUENTES One of the novels that helped bring Latin American literature to wider internat ...

POSTWAR WRITING THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN (1969), JOHN FOWLES This popular and highly acclaimed novel by British author John ...

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T oward the end of the 20th century, the world was becoming a smaller place. The accelerating pace of technological advances, pa ...

rising numbers of immigrants from around the world. Many cities in Europe became cosmopolitan centers, attracting not only peopl ...

296 OUR HISTORY IS AN AGGREGATE OF LAST MOMENTS GRAVITY’S RAINBOW (1973), THOMAS PYNCHON T he term “encyclopedic novel” refers t ...

297 Calm/restlessness Th e^ r ain bow imp lies^ ca lm^ after^ a^ downpour. (^) Ho weve r, (^) Py nch on’ wa s rtim e^ and postwa ...

298 YOU ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN READING ITALO CALVINO’S NEW NOVEL IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER (1979), ITALO CALVINO T he term m ...