The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.
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