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The contemporary novel - Coggle Diagram

- - - - portraying personal female life;
      - questioning social and intellectual problems
- - - - Anarchy and savagery can come out without society’s rules, man’s values and ideals
      - Thinness of the protective civilised layer keeping man from barbarism
      - Brutal annihilation of his own kind
- - - - fairy story
      - mythology
      - dream
      - combined with everyday reality
  - - - J. L.
        Borges
      - Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
- - - - the British class system
      - middle-class values
  - - - through the figure of a young hero
        
        who tries to climb the social ladder
- - - - (e.g.) elves, dwarves, dragons
      - which comments on reality through allegories and mythology
- - - - Ian McEwan, who has revealed a deep humanity and capacity to experience and describe feelings.
      - Kazuo Ishiguro, who has chosen to deal with both Japanese and British subject matters.
      - Bruce Chatwin, who had a pacific view of human nature in
        relation to the environment.