Citação para comentar - sobre realismo

Considerando a seguinte citação do ensaio de Flannery O’Connor, “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”, 1960, escolha A ou B.

“All novelists are fundamentally seekers and describers of the real, but the realism of each novelist will depend on his view of the ultimate reaches of reality. Since the eighteenth century, the popular spirit of each succeeding age has tended more and more to the view that the ills and mysteries of life will eventually fall before the scientific advances of man, a belief that is still going strong even though this is the first generation to face total extinction because of these advances.”

1. Comente a questão do realismo na literatura pós-1945 nos Estados Unidos, relacionando com pelo menos outros dois textos estudados na disciplina.

2. Escreva um pequeno conto ou poema ilustrando a capacidade do indivíduo americano de resistir ou reverter a extinção total, e/ou de voltar-se para o mistério.