The Precariousness Life of the Novel

[Mark Kohut]

ISH!

Quit finding me other MUST--READ books!( it is my year of rereading Pynchon
and Shakespeare and reading Dante, I say to myself laughingly)    Yes, I
say to this guy and have said--
the novel still and will always matter. Your phrase on it 'capturing the
least
definable aspects of our experience--not his quote, amirite?--is perfect.
Everything outside the net of the already known; everything yet undefined
and unpoetic until made so. And More.

I was mentally formed in my self-education believing
in the 'newness' of the novel as a form always adapting, incorporating,
leapfrogging
into a new style all the time...always a new way to 'touch reality'--even
when
that means going surreal, anti-real, in order to see reality better, etc.
etc. --

The good writer John Banville can be very witty and he recently sent out
this
bit o' wit:
                'The novel is dead again, they're all saying, but this time,
                 For Realsies"...

I just love that intrusion of a children's fantasy-like word....

Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:56 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> In five elegant chapters, split between art and matter, or form and
> content, Boxall explores the way that novelists over the past five
> centuries have celebrated the ability of the fictional story to
> undermine itself without losing any of its power. He makes a powerful
> case for the novel as the genre capable of capturing the least
> definable aspects of our experience.
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/23/the-value-of-the-novel-peter-boxall-review-literary-criticism
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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