The son of a doctor and an aristocrat, Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, where he received a literature-rich private education. In 1840, he went to Paris to attend law school. There, he met Victor Hugo, decided to become a writer, abandoned law, and, in 1846, began an affair with poet and novelist L

High realism, Lush, Representational, Sardonic, Tragic

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers,

Death, Excessive, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Perverse, Profane, Queer, Rebel, Sensual, Tragic, Visceral

Bolano’s works are a wash of multiplicities. Art and literature are woven into crime and atrocity; literary culture is a whore to its own vainity; vanity is a strung out pimp in the middle of a thunderstorm; the story of person a: poet, custodian, radical transvestite briefly intersects with and is

Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Chance, Cool, Dark, Death, Enigmatic, Epic, Erotic, Expansive, Experimental, Funny, Gritty, Grotesque, Hypnotic, Loose, Overflowing, Parody, Pathos, Political, Rebel, Saturated, Social revolution, Sophisticated, Spectral, Sublime, Tragic, Violent, Visceral

One of the most important Native American writers of the post-1968 generation, James Welch, to a large degree, established a genre. What he gave us was Native American Literature: literature unmistakably about Indian subjects, written by an Indian writer. His characters were never drawn from sensa

Clean, Clever, Deconstructive, Epic, Expansive, Figurative, Illusive, Lyrical, Mythic, Native american fiction, Native american poetry, Pioneering, Post-colonialism, Sincere, Spiritual, Sublime, Tragic, Tribal