Why are novels called "novels"? shouldn't they (now) be called "olds" or
"passe's".
Maybe i just resent this artform because i don't have the time to enjoy it, but it seems to me that it is fast becoming obselete in the face of film and even of graphic novels, the rise of the comic to the status of prominent literature, or deception.
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It's called the novel because central to its rationale is that it must forever renew itself -- that is, continually find new modes of being. Very few 'novels' really are novels as such. One can think of a handful of exponents: Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Nabokov plus a few others.
Perhaps you see the form as obsolete because too many books masquerading as novels merely repeat tired old formulas.
Perhaps you see the form as obsolete because too many books masquerading as novels merely repeat tired old formulas.
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