How the background of an author can affectthe narrative technique of a novel

The background of a person can have an affect on the choices they make and the way they lead their life. In the cases of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, their background affected the narrative techniques used in their novels. Each used very different narrative techniques, but each produced a novel that reached the public. In Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the structure of the novel was written as if it was a newspaper article, to give information of a specific event. In Solzhenitsyn’s One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, the structure of the novel was written to clarify people, and let the public know about a specific time in history. Although both novels were written to help clarify a certain incident, the final result of both novels did not have the same affect because of the different narrative techniques used by the authors. However, this is what the authors’ intentions were when they wrote their novels. Each author, having a com...