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I'll read other novels, but keep being drawn back to authors who wrote between 1900 & the 1930s. To me it is a transitional era, between the 'more' traditional prose of what came before & what after. Of course there are always gray areas in literature.
In the 1930s, Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can't Happen Here, w/ its exploration of fascism, a book which became a best seller after the 2016 Presidential Election. E.M. Forster came out w/ Howards End--the 'silent' war btwn the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes--Schlegels the devotees of the arts, & the Wilcoxes, who put utmost importance on business & material wealth. Joseph Conrad wrote Nostromo, wherein rebel forces rise up against foreign influences in South America.
All these conflicts are still alive & brewing today. It seems as if we're actually going backwards. I don't want to get political, least not directly, but I can see why apocalyptic novels have their appeal today.
What is your favorite literary epoch?
In the 1930s, Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can't Happen Here, w/ its exploration of fascism, a book which became a best seller after the 2016 Presidential Election. E.M. Forster came out w/ Howards End--the 'silent' war btwn the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes--Schlegels the devotees of the arts, & the Wilcoxes, who put utmost importance on business & material wealth. Joseph Conrad wrote Nostromo, wherein rebel forces rise up against foreign influences in South America.
All these conflicts are still alive & brewing today. It seems as if we're actually going backwards. I don't want to get political, least not directly, but I can see why apocalyptic novels have their appeal today.
What is your favorite literary epoch?