Northern Europe

Not delve in this part of the history of literature because it is more complex and in my opinion – not hegemonic aim the raised existential. The Middle evo handled by the curia, nor is an era in which human beings was compelled to raise these arguments, early oral literature goes trocando to writing very slowly. The Church and the nobles, who possessed the cultural domain was used together with religion, fear and submission to God and the King. Except for some et108 of Arabic or pagan origin of Northern Europe where made forays into the fantastic writings spoke of heroes, order, and exaggerated Greek-style feats which nothing coincided with reality and that had much of popular imagination. The social conflicts and crises that will cause the arrival of industrialization will create a positive sense in humanity where literature is standardizes and becomes commercial. The burghers impersonate the nobles and clergy be amended to be next to the powerful, the political class will directly from the bourgeoisie who are trained to direct the population in growth. The urban masses must be educated to understand the value of money and the opinions of the employment contracts that were forms of slavery, the man slowly transforms into a number. Literature will become, as in earlier times, as exorcizador of social problems.

Born the police and science fiction, one to solve the problem of crime and identifying criminals in an overcrowding caused by the market, and the other to anticipate future problems of humanity. It will create a publishing industry driven by the journal, then the books by delivery and later by the diversification of interests. We are witnessing the social being. The theme becomes more existential man begins to look at himself, is the time of French realism, and the birth of the origin of languages and studies on narrative form, criticism.