History of Literature -- Colorful Humanistic History

Author: Neil Grant
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Ballads, legends, myths, stories, fables, fairy tales, biographies, poems, anecdotes, travelogues, plays, novels, essays, and critiques—numerous genres constitute literature and also its history. However, not every expression of emotion or narrative can enter the history of literature. For each specific era, only a few works that can withstand the sieve of time and survive through the transmission of later generations are preserved. In this sense, the history of literature is essentially the history of outstanding literature, the history of classic literature. This is a literary history written by a novelist, and compared to other similar works, it is undoubtedly more personalized and uniquely insightful. The author is convinced that the figures and masterpieces he lists—from Herodotus, the early Greek travel writer and historian, to the Latin American magical realism literary family, from the ancient Roman Metamorphoses of the skeptical era to the postmodern anti-theatrical Waiting for Godot—are literary giants and classics that we cannot afford to ignore or neglect. Judging from the popularity of the English edition of this book, the author's confidence is well-founded.