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REALISM D E S I R E E G U F F I N

“When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.” ― Don DeLillo

-Started around the 1860’s to the 1890’s-Defined as the representation of reality-Thought to have no differences between the 19th century movement naturalism -Mainly focused on the writing of middle class life or a particular topic-Things were changing rapidly in the US people interested in the different cultures.

Campbell, Donna M. "Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890." Literary Movements. Dept. of English, Washington State University

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Mark Twain and William Dean Howells were known as the pioneers of realism in the US

WRITERSJ A D E N P A N E T T A

Paulo Coelho features Realism in most of his literary works, such as “The Alchemist”, “The witch of Portobello”, and “The Valkyries”.

Henry Adams was one of the first authors to use Realism. You can see his use in his works such as “Democracy” and “Esther, 1918”.

Mark Twain was one of the first authors to use Realism. He used realism in many of his works. His most famous are “The Innocents Abroad” and “Roughing it”.

Realism is a literary term which is so widely used as to be more or less meaningless except when used in contradistinction to some other movement, such as Naturalism, Expressionism, Surrealism.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. –Mark Twain

Campbell, Donna M. "Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890." Literary Movements. Dept. of English, Washington State University

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AUTHORSA L E X C O L L I A S

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel tells a story about a young girl living in Mexico at the turn of the century, you’ll find out the struggles of the little girl to make her independence.

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho teaches you how to turn lead into gold, and the change of evolution.

“IQ84” BY Haraki Murakami writes about a girl who feels like she is loosing touch with the real world, and on a secret mission about the superhuman founder of a religion.

Fun Fact: In literature, an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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