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Can There Ever Be Writing Without The “I”?

Certain contemporary writers may be deluded and even deceived in claiming there is nothing subjective in their fictional writings, forgetting that their literary “realities” are, inevitably, the fruit of a personal vision.

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García Márquez’s Final Novel And The Eternal Beauty Of The Unfinished

The late Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author’s sons have published his draft novel Until August against his will. Yet no work of art is ever really finished. And excerpts and fragments are suited to our anxious times.

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Kafka And Dostoevsky: Was ‘The Trial’ A Hidden Rewriting Of ‘Crime And Punishment’?

A Colombian student of Franz Kafka insists works by the 20th century Czech author, like The Trial, are so close to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as to be versions of it — creating potential trouble for European publishing houses.

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