This document summarizes important literature from the 1950s through the 1990s. It highlights influential novels such as The Catcher in the Rye, The Godfather, and Interview with the Vampire from the 1950s-1970s, and goes on to discuss books like The Name of the Rose, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Blindness from the 1980s-1990s. The document provides brief overviews of each work including its genre, country of origin, plot details, and cultural impact to give the reader a sense of the major literary works during this time period.

1. Literature
from 1950s to 1990s

2. 1950s
 J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
 Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
 Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (First James Bond novel)

3. J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
• Published: 1951;
• Country: United States;
• Genre: novel;
• Originally published for adults, the
book became popular with
adolescent readers, for its themes
of teenage confusion, alienation
and rebellion;
• The novel’s protagonist and
antihero, Holden Caulfield, has
become an icon for teenage
rebellion;

4. • Translated into almost all languages;
• Total sales about 65 million books;
• Novel accurately reflected the teenage speech of the time,
including:
– "Phony": Superficial, hypocritical, and pretentious
– "That killed me": I found that hilarious or astonishing
– "Flit": Homosexual
– "Flitty": Homosexual behavior
– Wuddya: (the ya slang) vernacular rendering, idiomatic
– "Crumby": Inadequate, insufficient, and/or disappointing.

5. 1960s
 Mario Puzo - The Godfather
 Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
 Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

6. Mario Puzo - The Godfather
• Published: 1969;
• Country: United States;
• Genre: crime novel;
• The Godfather details the story of
a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family
based in New York City and headed
by Don Vito Corleone, who became
synonymous with the Italian Mafia.
• The book introduced Italian
criminal terms
like consiglieri, caporegime, Cosa
Nostra, and omertà to an English-
speaking audience.

7. • In 1972 the book inspired the film with the same name and
two more film sequels, in 1974 and 1990. The first and second
films are widely considered to be two of the greatest films of
all time.
• Large parts of the novel are based upon reality, notably the
history of the so-called 'Five Families', the Mafia-organization
in New York and the surrounding area. The novel also includes
many allusions to real-life mobsters and their associates,
and Johnny Fontane is based on Frank Sinatra, Moe
Greene on Bugsy Siegel, for example.

8. 1970s
 Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
 Stephen King - Carrie
 Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel

9. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
• Published: 1976;
• Country: United States;
• Genres: gothic fiction and horror
fiction;
• Interview with the Vampire is the first
novel to feature the enigmatic
vampire Lestat, and was followed by
several sequels. A film
version, Interview with the Vampire:
The Vampire Chronicles, was released
in 1994 starring Brad Pitt, Kirsten
Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian
Slater and Tom Cruise;
• To date, the novel has sold some 8
million copies worldwide.

10. 1980s
 Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
 Ernest Hemingway - The Garden of Eden
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Nobel
Prize
• Published: 1985;
• Country: Columbia;
• Genre: novel;
• Love in the Time of Cholera (El
amor en los tiempos del cólera)
have four major themes:
narrative as seduction, narrative
as deconstruction, love as an
emotional and physical disease
and aging and death.

12. 1990s
 Jose Saramago – Blindness
 Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
 J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

13. Jose Saramago – Blindness
• Jose Saramago – Nobel Prize
• Published: 1995;
• Country: Portugal;
• Genre: novel;
• The city afflicted by the blindness is
never named, some signs hint that
the country is Saramago's
homeland, Portugal: the main
character is shown eating chouriço,
some dialogue in the original
Portuguese employs the familiar
"tu" second-person singular verb
form and the church, with all its
saintly images, is likely of the
Catholic variety.

14. English - 12th grade
Barbara Sousa