Sunday, December 07, 2014

An Answer To The Novel's Detractors

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In The New Yorker, novelist Adelle Waldman makes a case for the value of the novel in contemporary literature: "As a novelist who doesn’t feel especially inclined to experiment with form, I admittedly have a dog in this fight. And yet I hope it’s not only defensiveness that urges me to defend the form against an indictment that in some iterations seems more trendy than rigorous. Before we rush to condemn whole-hog the novel’s supposedly obsolete conventions—the well-worn apparatuses of plot and character—we ought look at how they function and what they do well." 


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