410 What Is American Literature? (with Ilan Stavans)
The History of Literature
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Gaslighting
The liteture is about contradictions of character, the fact that they can be telling the truth, but they are also liars. In with a rascolnicov in crime and punishment, or with a don quixote in the masterpiece by sir cervantes, ind we feel that we areDon Quixote,. That is what attracts us to those books. It's a book written during the the trump years. And it seems to me that a the fracturing of america took place during those four years in a way that it had been much more dramatic than anything that happened from the civil war to the present. Is its fractured, or i not accurate, ino competing realities
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