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unusual facts about The Western Canon



Clarel

In 1994, Harold Bloom chose Clarel as one of four Melville works to be included in his book, The Western Canon.

Period piece

Harold Bloom in The Western Canon (1994) labels those works not included in his list of 20th century "classics" as being mostly "period pieces" (see Appendix header for "The Chaotic Age").


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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

Harold Bloom includes A Tomb for Boris Davidovich in his list of canonical works of the period he names the Chaotic Age (1900–present) in The Western Canon.

Bleak House

Harold Bloom, in his book The Western Canon, considers Bleak House to be Dickens's greatest novel.

James Wilcox

Since its publication in 1983 Modern Baptists has been included in Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon and listed in GQ’s 45th anniversary issue as one of the best works of fiction published in the past 45 years.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.