Luis borges

Some of the dominant features of postmodern fictions include temporal disorder, the erosion of the sense of time, a foregrounding of words as fragmenting material signs, a pervasive and pointless use of pastiche, loose association of ideas, paranoia and the creation of vicious circles or a loss of destination between separate levels of discourse, which are all symptoms of the language disorders of postmodernist fictions. The postmodern novel may be summed up as: • Late modernism. • Anti-modernism

“A true account of talking to the sun at Fire Island” by Frank O’Hara was deliberately a motivational speech. In the poem the sun has come to re-awaken the artistic talent and confidence within Frank O’Hara, who has lost belief in his own talent due to the criticism of critics. The Sun in this poem is basically a mentor and he speaks to the poet, O’Hara, as if he is his protégé. After acknowledging that he dislikes how he spends his days sleeping the Sun points out how he has interests in the poems

writers are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Esquivel, Salman Rushdie,Gunter Grass ,Angela Carter ,John Fowles, Italo calvino and Graham Swift. During 1950s, magic realism became a major literary technique of Latin American writers especially, Jorge Luis Borges and the Columbian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the pioneer of magic realism. He was born on 6 march 1928 in Aracataca, a

Paulo Coelho is a famous author that has written many popular works in these past few decades. He is most notably known for The Alchemist, which was written in 1988. The Alchemist was “one of the greatest best-sellers of all times” (Kaaki). During his lifetime, Coelho went through many obstacles; the most notable event was getting an electrical shock when he was in a mental institution and getting placed into prison. He was able to move past all of these difficulties and became a well-known author

Magic Realism in art refers to a twentieth century movement which was initiated by European artists after World War I and which was followed by a second stage that began in North America a decade later. The earliest phases of Magic Realism began around 1919 and preceded Surrealism by several years. Together the two phases spanned approximately four decades, with residual works after 1960. Magic Realism evolved during the Post-Expressionism movement in Weimar Germany. Connected with the Return to

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe “To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.” Socrates one of the greek philosophers in the 400’s BC, gives a reasonable question about the fear of death. Death affects people and characters very differently in life. In the world of literary

The works of the late 1982 Columbian literary Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garica Marquez reflect not only the sentiments of postcolonial Columbians, but also the surreal realities lived by Latin Americans in the New World. This surreal reality is what Marquez has become synonymous with — magic realism. The literary genre, magic realism, can be found in Marquez’s books and short stories such as 100 Years of Solitude and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. Literary critics and audience alike have marveled

Che Guevara is a legend in several countries. He?s most famous for being a leading figure in the Cuban Revolution in the late 1950s as Communist ideals spread through the island nation 90 miles south of Florida. After the Cuban Revolution, Guevara headed to South America as a guerilla leader who tried to topple several governments there. To understand Guevara?s revolutionary tactics, you must go back a few generations to study his Irish roots. Immigrants to Argentina Che Guevara?s major influence

Edgar Allan Poe; a famous all American Poet, short story writer and critic. Some of his most famous writings include Raven and The Cask of Amontillado. His writings all include horror or some type of mystery. Edgar did not have the “white picket fence” type of life. His was like riding on a rollercoaster, full of difficulties, but he turned out to be a writing genius. But I think that alcohol, and unsupportive family impacted Poe’s writing style, as well as the difficulties in his life. Edgar

not be otherwise described adequately in a realistic fashion (Lodge 114). One of the best known magical realism novels is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. The best known magical realism short story author however, is Jorge Luis Borges. Although Latin American literature was predominantly written by males in the past, it is becoming more diverse now with the voices of females, homosexuals, and Jews. One such voice is that of Mexican writer Laura Esquivel who wrote Como Agua Para