The novel represented a maturation of storytelling"the adulthood of fiction, taking the reader into the interior of the human person. Now, the form is on its deathbed. Lingering readers are seeking in it something other"diversion, entertainment"than what the readers of Jane Austen or the Brontes, Dickens or Kafka, were seeking back in the day. " […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM on March 11, 2020