The kindness of novels : Roland Barthes
The comedy of ignorance : Samuel Beckett
Politics in paradise : Julio Cortazar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas
The motive for metaphor : Milan Kundera
The promised land : Italo Calvino
A postmodernist romance : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The mind has mountains : Toni Morrison
Tigers and mirrors : Angela Carter
All the rage : Stephen King
Lost paradises : Edward Said
The discourse of others : Kazuo Ishiguro
The nightmare of narrative : Jeanette Winterson.