Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano begins his day with an observation of the literature of T.S. Eliot  as it relates to our digital times is an interesting idea.  Of course, Eliot is a fairly modern author, having lived from 1888-1965.  He is perhaps best known for The Waste Land (1922), but it was The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock that made a name for this master of American Literature.  Oswaldo Luna Valerrabano  knows Prufrock took Eliot five years to write and upon publication in 1915, when he was just 27 years old, hailed his arrival as the head of the modernist movement with Prufrock standing as the movement’s masterpiece.

Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano on Modern Literature

Modernist literature is itself an offshoot of Modernism – an early 20^th century movement characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. In art, Picasso is one of the best known modernists states Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano.  Literature of the modernist genre struggled with the influx of new subject matter as a result of a world growing increasingly industrialized and globalized.  Think about that for a moment.  Won’t the authors active from the 1980s to the present and going forward be thought of as a new form of modernism, such as how they’ve dealt with a world that has grown increasingly digital and ever more globalized wonders Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano.

Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano On the Facts

Consider the facts: Writers who’ve come of age and produced literature since roughly 1980 have seen the birth of so much technology that it has literally changed our world and the way we move through it, perceive it and this will have affected their writing. After all, 30 some years ago we didn’t have cell phones – let alone smart phones, no email, no Internet, to have satellite TV you had a humongous satellite dish in your yard, etc.  When these writers were children, long distance telephone calls were prohibitively expensive notes Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano.

Much like the writers and artists of the early twentieth century Modernist movement, today’s writers are writing in a world that has changed before their eyes. Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano understands that book deals are virtual and worldwide. You can go to a bookstore, a library, the Internet, or instantly download a book to your e-reader.  How will this massive amount of progress and change affect the literature of our times questions Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano

Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano

Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano is a tenured professor of literature at a major university. He is currently taking a sabbatical to research a compendium on the evolution of the modern novel. Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano finds the idea of T.S. Eliot in 2012 amusing and is trying to coin a word to represent the literature of the last years of the 20^th century and first decades of the 21^st century. Stay tuned for more from Oswaldo Luna Valderrabano.