Fiction<\/P>
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The first novel written by a Dominican is El Montero<\/I> (1856) by Pedro Francisco Bon\u00f3, and was immediately followed by La fantasma de Higuey <\/I>in 1857 by Francisco Angulo Guridi; the first published in Paris and the second in Havana. Still, some literary historians claim the first Dominican novel to be Los amores de los indios<\/I> by Angulo Guridi, written in Havana in 1843. The Dominican novel has not had gained the vitality that other genres like poetry, the essay and the story have enjoyed, despite Enriquillo<\/I> (1879), a novel by Manuel Jes\u00fas Galv\u00e1n, who was the great indigenous novelist of the New World.<\/P>
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The novel as a genre arrived late to the Dominican Republic. It emerged under the influence of the French romanticism of Victor Hugo. As can be observed, the history of Dominican literature is the history of poetry, or rather, of poetic generations. Still, a great landmark in the Dominican novel was created by the novel S\u00f3lo cenizas hallar\u00e1s <\/I>(bolero) of Pedro Verg\u00e9s, for which he won the Blasco Iba\u00f1ez Prize and the Spanish Critics International Award in 1980.<\/P>
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The Dominican novel has three important moments categorized by their typology and themes. The first is the “novela de la ca\u00f1a” (featuring themes of native peoples and the sugar industry), represented by Ca\u00f1as y bueyes<\/I> by Moscoso Puello, Over by Marrero Aristy and Jenjibre by P\u00e9rez Alfonseca. The next is the “novela b\u00edblica” (the biblical novel) of Carlos Esteban Deive, Veloz Maggiolo and Ram\u00f3n Emilio Reyes. The third is the “novela propagandistica” (the propaganda novel) such as Los enemigos de la tierra <\/I>by Requena, Trementina, cler\u00e9n y bongo <\/I>and the “novela costumbrista” (folk novels) like La cacica<\/I> by Rafael Damir\u00f3n, Ban\u00ed o Engracia y Anto\u00f1ica <\/I>by F. Gregorio Billini, La ma\u00f1osa <\/I>by Juan Bosch and the trilogy by Garc\u00eda Godoy, composed of Rufinito, Guanuma and Alma dominicana.<\/I><\/P>
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Among the most hallowed and internationally recognized current novelists is Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. Author of a dozen novels and a versatile writer, he has cultivated the short story, the historical-archaeological essay, the play and the novel. Together with A\u00edda Cartagena Portalat\u00edn, he created the experimental novel, first with Los \u00e1ngeles de hueso (1967) and then with Escalera para Electra (1970). Regardless of this reality, many literary critics still maintain that the great Dominican novel has not yet been written, despite the existence of novels such as La sangre by Tulio Manuela Cestero, Over by Ram\u00f3n Marrero Aristy, La ma\u00f1osa <\/I>by Bosch, Biograf\u00eda difusa de Sombra Casta\u00f1eda<\/I> by Veloz Maggiolo or La balada de Alfonsina Bair\u00e1n <\/I>by Andr\u00e9s L. Mateo.<\/P>
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