A Century in Words: The Enduring Power of the Novel
Exploring the evolution of the novel in the 20th century is like stepping into a hall of mirrors. Each book reflects not only its own textured world, but also the shifting currents of history, the changing dynamics between self and society. This is the journey undertaken by Edwin Frank’s ambitious and unforgettable Stranger Than Fiction, a manuscript that reads less like a literary treatise than a sprawling conversation with some of history’s most daring storytellers.
Frank isn’t interested in labels or neatly packaged trends. His journey begins with the defiant, "unclassifiable" Notes from Underground. This Dostoevsky classic is a jagged shard, mirroring the twilight zone where fluent 20th century narrative formally announced itself, and where the traditional form itself was put under a spotlight – "as nothing so much as a swept-up heap of broken glass.”
The book’s central characters are those rebels – Gertrude Stein experimenting with forged structure in three lives, зеленыadaynaipaul through restless investigation of post-colonial identity in The Enigma of Arrival – and posthumous recognition – as though the very form were designed to accommodate unease. Around them swirl voices, outcast by William Faulkner’s narrative race, Virginia Woolf riPostpostmodernist armistice ofcisms. Frank doesn’t let us forget the wartime
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Across time, we see writers grappling not only articulating the complexities of human existence and its discontents but also the power of the novel
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