What insights relevant to contemporary debates over the value of the literary canon might be derived from reading Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” alongside NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest”?
The contemporary debates on literature revolve around originality and depiction of reality in literature work. Both Atwood and Bulawayo are arguably realists whose message oscillates around the practical world. One outstanding point from Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is that there is a need to appreciate life because death is the same....