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95 relations: Abbey Theatre, Aislinge Meic Con Glinne, Alasdair Gray, Aldous Huxley, André Gide, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Cronin, Argentines, Arthur Schopenhauer, B. S. Johnson, Bernard Benstock, Bob den Uyl, Brendan Gleeson, Brian O'Nolan, Buile Shuibhne, Cillian Murphy, Clonmacnoise, Colin Farrell, Dalkey Archive Press, Declan Kiberd, Dublin, Dylan Thomas, Early Irish literature, Euripides, Fiction, Finnegans Wake, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Found object, Frame story, Gabriel Byrne, Gilbert Sorrentino, Graham Greene, Guinness, Guinness Brewery, Hardcover, Harry Rowohlt, Herakles (Euripides), Horse racing, Irish language, James Branch Cabell, James Johnson Sweeney, James Joyce, John Fowles, John O'London's Weekly, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jorge Luis Borges, Longman, Luftwaffe, Luigi Pirandello, Master of Arts, ..., Menippean satire, Metafiction, Michael Cronin (academic), Michael Fassbender, Middle Irish, Miguel de Unamuno, Mist (novel), New Statesman, New York City, Ninety-nine Novels, Old Irish, Pantheon Books, Paperback, Púca, Postcolonialism, Prose, Proteus, Raymond Queneau, Ridiculusmus, River Shannon, Søren Kierkegaard, Seán Ó Faoláin, Shannonbridge, Stephen Fry, Stout, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Third Policeman, The Times Literary Supplement, Time (magazine), Time's List of the 100 Best Novels, Timothy O'Keeffe, Tipster, Tomas O'Crohan, Trellis (architecture), Typewriter, Ulysses (novel), Underwood Typewriter Company, University College Dublin, Verse (poetry), Vivian Mercier, Western literature, When Fiction Lives in Fiction, World War II. Expand index (45 more) »
Abbey Theatre
The Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainistreach), also known as the National Theatre of Ireland (Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann), in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904.
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Aislinge Meic Con Glinne
Aislinge Meic Con Glinne (Middle Ir.: The Vision of Mac Conglinne) is a Middle Irish tale of anonymous authorship, generally believed to have been written in the late 11th/early 12th century.
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Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.
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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.
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Anthony Cronin
Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (23 December 1928 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator, barrister and arts activist.
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Argentines
Argentines, also known as Argentinians (argentinos; feminine argentinas), are the citizens of the Argentine Republic, or their descendants abroad.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.
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B. S. Johnson
Bryan Stanley Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic.
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Bernard Benstock
Bernard Benstock (1930 – July 14, 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami.
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Bob den Uyl
Jacob (Bob) den Uyl (27 March 1930, Rotterdam – 13/14 February, 1992 Rotterdam) was a Dutch writer of mostly short stories.
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Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson (born March 29, 1955) is an Irish actor and film director.
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Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.
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Buile Shuibhne
Buile Shuibhne or Buile Suibhne (The Madness of Suibhne or Suibhne's Frenzy) is an old Irish tale about the Suibhne mac Colmain, king of the Dál nAraidi, driven insane by St. Ronan's curse.
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Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor.
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Clonmacnoise
The monastery of Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nóis in Irish, meaning "Meadow of the Sons of Nós", or perhaps, albeit less likely, Cluain Muccu Nóis "Meadow of the Pigs of Nós") is situated in County Offaly, Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone.
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Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor.
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Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Illinois in the United States, Dublin, and London, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser known, often avant-garde works.
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Declan Kiberd
Declan Kiberd (born 24 May 1951) is an Irish writer and scholar.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
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Early Irish literature
Early Irish literature is the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe.
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Euripides
Euripides (Εὐριπίδης) was a tragedian of classical Athens.
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Fiction
Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Irish writer James Joyce.
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Fionn mac Cumhaill
Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old and Find or Finn mac Cumail or Umaill, sometimes transcribed in English as MacCool or MacCoul) was a mythical hunter-warrior of Irish mythology, occurring also in the mythologies of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
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Found object
Found object originates from the French objet trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.
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Frame story
A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
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Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator.
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Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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Guinness
Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness (1725–1803) at St. James's Gate brewery in the capital city of Dublin, Ireland.
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Guinness Brewery
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Hardcover
A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
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Harry Rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt (27 March 1945 – 15 June 2015) was a German writer and translator.
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Herakles (Euripides)
Herakles (Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος, Hēraklēs Mainomenos, also known as Hercules Furens) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BCE.
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Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.
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Irish language
The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.
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James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres.
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James Johnson Sweeney
James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1986) was an American curator, and writer about modern art.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.
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John Fowles
John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.
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John O'London's Weekly
John O'London's Weekly was a weekly literary magazine that was published by George Newnes Ltd of London between 1919 and 1954.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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Longman
Longman, commonly known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.
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Menippean satire
The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities.
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Metafiction
Metafiction is a form of literature that emphasizes its own constructedness in a way that continually reminds the reader to be aware that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.
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Michael Cronin (academic)
Michael Cronin is an academic specialist in culture, translation studies and the Irish language, and is the current Chair of French (1776) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is a German-born Irish actor.
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Middle Irish
Middle Irish (sometimes called Middle Gaelic, An Mheán-Ghaeilge) is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from circa 900-1200 AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old English and early Middle English.
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish Basque essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
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Mist (novel)
Mist (Niebla), also sometimes translated as Fog, is a nivola written by Miguel de Unamuno in 1907 and published in 1914.
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New Statesman
The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ninety-nine Novels
Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (Allison & Busby, 1984) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983.
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Old Irish
Old Irish (Goídelc; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish; sometimes called Old Gaelic) is the name given to the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive written texts are extant.
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Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.
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Paperback
A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
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Púca
The púca (Irish for spirit/ghost), pooka, phouka, phooka, phooca, puca or púka is primarily a creature of Celtic folklore.
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Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.
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Prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.
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Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus (Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς) is an early sea-god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea".
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Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau (21 February 1903 – 25 October 1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), notable for his wit and cynical humour.
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Ridiculusmus
Ridiculusmus is an award-winning British theatre company founded in 1992 by Angus Barr, Jon Haynes and David Woods.
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River Shannon
The River Shannon (Abha na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the longest river in Ireland at.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
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Seán Ó Faoláin
Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin (22 February 1900 – 20 April 1991) was an Irish short story writer.
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Shannonbridge
Shannonbridge is a village located on the River Shannon, at the junction of the R444 and R357 regional roads in County Offaly, Ireland.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Stout
Stout is a dark beer that includes roasted malt or roasted barley, hops, water and yeast.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.
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The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien.
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The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Time's List of the 100 Best Novels
Time's List of the 100 Best Novels is an unranked list of the 100 best novels—and ten best graphic novels—published in the English language between 1923 and 2005.
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Timothy O'Keeffe
Timothy O'Keeffe (September 27, 1926, Scilly, Kinsale, County Cork - January 11, 1994, London) was an Irish-born editor and publisher.
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Tipster
A tipster is someone who regularly provides information (tip) on the likely outcomes of sporting events.
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Tomas O'Crohan
Tomás Ó Criomhthain (anglicised as Tomas O'Crohan or Thomas O'Crohan; 21 December 1856–1937) was a native of the Irish-speaking Great Blasket Island off the coast of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland.
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Trellis (architecture)
A trellis (treillage) is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs.
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Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.
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Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.
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Underwood Typewriter Company
The Underwood Typewriter Company was a manufacturer of typewriters headquartered in New York City, New York.
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University College Dublin
University College, Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD; An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a research university in Dublin, Ireland.
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Verse (poetry)
In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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Vivian Mercier
Vivian Mercier (1919–1989) was an Irish literary critic.
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Western literature
Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque and Hungarian.
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When Fiction Lives in Fiction
When Fiction Lives in Fiction is the title of a significant narrative essay written in 1939 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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