THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO LITERARY FICTION

And the conglomerates, hemmed in by the main bookstore chains, shareholder value, growing fascination premiums, along with the recessions of 1980 and 1981–82, have been purchasing blockbusters and formulaic collection on the exclusion of what now needed the title “literary fiction.” By labeling a title as such, a single put it in an emergent

is often a satire of the chivalric romances preferred during Cervantes’s time. Center-aged Don Quixote of sixteenth-century La Mancha, Spain, spends his daily life studying these epic tales. They encourage him to revive what he sees given that the misplaced strategy of chivalry, so he picks up a sword and protect and becomes a knight. His purpose