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    Don Quixote de la Arnor

    Don Quixote was (amongst many other things) a satircization of the knight-errantry stories which were prevalent in Europe and Spain at the time. The characters, or heroes, tended to be one-dimensional i.e. handsome, brave prince and beautiful princess. I say tend to be-knight errantry is neither...
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    'Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors'

    Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors This is a pretty pathetic piece of cenorship!
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    Magic Realism

    Who here likes magic realism? If so, which novels do you like best? Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnights Children' and 'The Satanic Verses'? Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita'? Günter Grass's 'The Tin Drum'? Gabriel García Márquez's '100 Years of Solitude' and 'Love In The Time Of Cholera'? It...
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    Esoteric Authors: Do they serve a purpose?

    Do difficult to read authors serve a purpose or are they superfluous and not needed and do they simply pander to the demands of the intelligentsia? Shouldn't literature be able to be accessible to everyone rather then a select few? Authors such as James Joyce and Thomas Mann are notoriously...
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    How Many Have You Read?

    I know these lists are a tad old (ish), but it would be nice to see how many listed books people on this forum have read, and how they compare to my tallies. This list was complied by the readers and writers of the Observer newspaper, and it is listed in order of publication. This one is kind...
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