#literary-innovation

#literary-innovation

Enrigue's 'penchant for shooting the facts of history through the prism of the absurd' makes him singular-but it also puts him firmly in a long literary tradition. The book 'distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters,' intertwining several real and invented incidents with major moments in the Apache Wars, a series of skirmishes involving Native Americans, the U.S., and Mexico across the Southwest borderlands.

Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores, known in English as the Elegies, was groundbreaking, not just as the first known translation into English but also for employing the rhymed heroic couplet.