LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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Arundhati Roy
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Salman Rushdie
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Seamus Heaney
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nabokov is known as one of the leading prose stylists of the 20th century; his first writings were in Russian, but he achieved his greatest fame with the novels he wrote in English.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are complete nonentities insofar as my taste in reading is concerned.
Detailed explanation-3: -Considered the ‘foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors’, he was known for his use of complex and original plots, and clever alliteration and wordplay. Nabokov’s Lolita is his most famous novel.
Detailed explanation-4: -Like many other writers who had an influence on the American prose of the 60s, Nabokov represents the main link between the earliest periods of the modernist movement and the development of that way of writing that is called “postmodernist” in the USA (Daiu, 2000).