Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form in Junot Dı´az’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Jennifer Harford Vargas Bryn Mawr College, jharfordva@brynmawr.edu

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Juno Diaz's "Oscar Voy's Short and Wonderful Life" is not the first novel, it is not that bad, but it can only be expressed as Mario Vargas. Llosa met "Star Trek" and met David Foster Wallace to meet Kanye West. It is fun, the streets are keen to observe it, from the manga portrait of the second generation Dominika geek to the painful meditation of public and private history and the burden of family history. This is a very energetic book. And it is moved by adrenaline - driven prose. And I will confidently guide the decades of history, and I will talk about crazy, faint voice, and also at home Turkien and Trujo. , Anime movies, curse of ancient Dominica, sex trick of Rutgers University, and secret police attack on Santo Domingo

On Monday, April 7, Juno Diaz 's first novel, "The Longevity and Great Life of Oscar Voy", won the 2008 Pulitzer Novel Prize. In November last year, Megan Orok interviewed Diaz about Oscar War about writing a story style and novel that is not his style. The full text of the interview is as follows. Juno Diaz 's novel attracted attention from the vibrant mix of American life. His debut work "Shui Shui" is a series of stories about the identity and affiliation of his narrator's life, many of whom are young Dominican people living in New York and New Jersey. At first glance, his long-awaited first novel "Oscar Wills Short & Wonderful Life" seems to be a classic growth novel. The story of a charming Dominican-American boy who grew over to overweight, lonely, a geek geek, a more intimate circle with the Lord than his social circle of his high school