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is divided into three parts, "The Old World", "The New World" and "The Next World" (it has been pointed out that the title of "The Next World" is mistranslated to
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is a failure, it is a magnificent failure. Its conception is truly grand, its perceptions often unique, its energy compelling and the inventiveness and audacity of some of its narrative maneuvers absolutely breathtaking."
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on 14th July 1999 and ends in the same city five and a half months later on the eve of destruction. The middle part of the novel is a young
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is this: it is a second nature. In many senses: in the sense that the verbal literary construction is very similar to the material of the narrated construction of El
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literary tradition. It has been called a "metafictional" as well as a "metahistorical" novel, and some critics have argued that it is a
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in his view appears to be a work born out of exactly such a commitment. Besides the reservations, Coover wrote that "if
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