Doctorow makes use of a kind of provocative language put together with an unusual narrative structure that reflects in itself the fragmentation of the socio-political moments the story refers to. ... Maybe this shift in the literary form implemented by Doctorow is an evidence that the old forms did not apply anymore to that kind of society - which is the same thing that happened with the developing of the romantic narrative- and it works to show us how art can be a good clue, once one contextualises it, to understand the way a society is structured. ... (p.556) It seems evident that such c...

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The railway station divides sets of parallel tracks, and the Ebro River in the backdrop splits the sterile from the fertile land. ... The bamboo bead curtain in the beginning is overshadowed by the hills and background, though provides symbolism as one could interpret it acts as diving structure between being stuck in or out of the bar and signifying the pregnancy dividing the couple. ...

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