Analysis Of The Lacuna By Barbara Kingsolver

“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin,” (Kingsolver, Barbara). This quote is fitting, since Kingsolver is a historical fictionist and writes from the memory of others. Barbara Kingsolver is associated with the Postmodernism movement, which began around 1945 and still continues today. Some basic beliefs of this literary period are that there is no absolute truth, truth and error are synonyms, traditional authority is false and corrupt, and all religions are valid. She has lived many places around the world, including Africa, Mexico, and South America, majorly influencing her to write her stories in the setting of other countries and from the political standpoints of other countries. Kingsolver lived briefly in the Congo in her early

Her family lived without power or running water. This opened her eyes to how other people lived and influenced her to write The Poisonwood Bible, which is set in the Congo. She has lived many places around the world throughout her life. Many of her stories are based on the different places that she has lived in her lifetime. As a college student, she participated in Activism while protesting the Vietnam war. Due to this, her writing later took a more activist form. In Review: ‘The Lacuna’ by Barbara Kingsolver, by Carolyn Alessio, it is argued that conflict is the main literary element that is being portrayed in The Lacuna, written by Barbara Kingsolver. More specifically, the clash of the characters’ ideological orientations, or politically oriented beliefs of an individual. I agree that conflict is the major literary element in this novel. In her newest novel, The Lacuna, a historical character named Leon Trotsky states, “Most people have no idea what it is. I