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The Novel and Fiction
Long-form prose fiction and its major works.
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- How did Brendan McKay debunk the Bible Code by applying the same method to Moby-Dick?
- How did Mariner 2's findings overturn the science-fiction image of a habitable Venus?
- How did Thomas Mann draw on his own family history in writing Buddenbrooks?
- How did the birth of Oe's son Hikari, born with a brain hernia, shape the themes of novels like A Personal Matter?
- What body of work had Kipling produced by his mid-thirties that the Nobel committee praised?
- What connects Mark Twain's birth and death to the 1835 and 1910 passages of Halley's Comet?
- What did Asturias's banana trilogy argue about United Fruit and corporate power in Central America?
- What did the Swedish Academy mean by praising his 'cartography of structures of power'?
- What range of history did Eyvind Johnson's historical novels cover?
- What role does the Australian landscape play in Patrick White's novel Voss?
- What span of human history does Johannes V. Jensen's six-volume cycle 'The Long Journey' attempt to cover?
- What story does Toni Morrison's novel Beloved tell, and why did it force a reckoning with American history?
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- What subjects does Annie Ernaux's autobiographical writing confront most directly?
- What technique lets Alice Munro's short stories accomplish in a few pages what novels take hundreds of pages to attempt?
- Where did Murray Gell-Mann get the name 'quark,' and why did he think the word fit?
- Where did the name 'quark' actually come from?
- Who else was publishing major work in 1904 that the Nobel committee passed over?
- Why did Isaac Asimov originally write the Three Laws of Robotics?
- Why did Sienkiewicz's historical trilogy resonate so strongly with Polish readers of his time?
- Why did the Swedish Academy pick Heyse over Tolstoy for the 1910 prize?
- Why does Blindness read as parable even though it describes a specific epidemic scenario?
- Why was passing over Leo Tolstoy for the first literature prize considered controversial?
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- Death of Isaac Asimov
- Halley's Comet returns as predicted by Newton's laws
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Mariner 2 — first successful planetary flyby
- Nobel Prize in Literature
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