[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] ci5_boxoftricks
On a fact-findinng mission...

Also, if there's some sort of protocol here about asking questions, please let me know.

A bit of an odd question, but here goes:

I need to find out (1) what literary writing styles were trendy in late 70s UK; and (2) what types of books the lads were reading during the series. I know a few have been mentioned, but am not sure of what beyond Ivan Denisovich.

"Literary writing styles" could be stream of consciousness, post-post modernism, deconstructism, something else: it just has to be *trendy,* what a writer looking for publicity / audience over quality might have been aiming for. I'd expect it to be dead by now. :D

These two things - (1) vs (2) - should be mutually exclusive.

Didn't find anything on [livejournal.com profile] little_details, but will check again.

Thanks ~ :D

Date: 2012-05-13 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com
Some suggestions: The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn) was very much discussed, although it was a 'true' story, and it was perhaps instrumental in getting people to read 'modern' Russian novels such as The Devil and Margarita - a kind of political satire meets magic realism style that tied into a growing 'respectability' for sci-fi (Squeeful mentions Vonnegut). Then people were still avidly reading Fowles' The Magus and his The French Lieutenant's Woman. Magic Realism was increasingly popular but Rushdie's Midnight's Children was probably too late for your purposes - 1981. Writers like Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) were gradually becoming widespread in translation. (I'm looking at what intelligent people in general were reading rather than what intellectuals/English undergraduates were interested in.) Or if you google The Booker Prize and choose the .pdf for 1975 onwards, you'll find the books that were in the news at the time and you can see at a glance which authors were much read or at least much discussed. I tried to get the URL for you but it insisted on turning itself into the URL for 2009 onwards so I gave up.

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