No fawning P-cultie, I
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Thu Mar 6 16:28:26 CST 1997
Henry sez
>Perhaps GR is not a great novel because it isn't a novel. Are all long
>works of fiction novels? How important are the elements that we have
>all been taught are necessary or required in a novel?
[and other interesting stuff]
E.M. Forster (if you'll cast your minds back) once said that a novel is a
story of more than 50,000 words, or some number like that. He had
previously said that a story is two or more events arranged in a
sequence. He said things like that in order to get out of irritating
discussions, no doubt, but I always thought those were actually pretty
good definitions.
Cheers,
David
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