The World Doesn’t End
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The World Doesn’t End is a Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of surreal, prose-poem vignettes by Charles Simic that blends dreamlike imagery with dark humor and philosophical reflection.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The World Doesn’t End canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ prose poem collection ⓘ |
| author | Charles Simic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize
NERFINISHED
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
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prose poetry ⓘ surrealist literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Serbian-American ⓘ |
| hasForm |
prose poems
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vignettes ⓘ |
| hasPart | short prose-poem vignettes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
European wartime experience
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emigration ⓘ family ⓘ myth ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| hasTone |
dark humor
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dreamlike ⓘ philosophical reflection ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
prose poems
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surrealism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of dark humor and philosophy
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innovative use of prose poems ⓘ surreal, dreamlike imagery ⓘ |
| originalPublicationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| publicationPlace | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
childhood
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death ⓘ displacement ⓘ dreamlike imagery ⓘ everyday life ⓘ history ⓘ memory ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ the absurd ⓘ violence ⓘ war ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPublication | late 20th century ⓘ |
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