The Modern Novel
The Modern Novel
A website on the world-wide literary novel since approximately the beginning of the twentieth century, arranged by nationality. This personal but extensive survey of literary fiction since around 1900 will continue to grow. It lists around 800 authors writing in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish or translated into one of those languages, with biography, bibliography and selected book reviews. Some interesting gatherings of subject matter are in the Lists and other sections at the bottom of the page. For further background see FAQ.
The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Never?
Maybe from God's point of view. Never from ours. In the raw, existence is always one damned thing after another.. simultaneously Thurber and Michelangelo.
Aldous Huxley in the play of The Genius and the Goddess
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Other links
- History of the Novel
- History of the Novel
- The Novel (Channel 4's website for the TV programme)
- Novel
- Novel
- Europe's Lost Stories
- History of modern literature
- 20th century in literature
- Robert McCrum's top 10 books of the twentieth century
The Death of the Novel
- Death of the novel
- Death of the novel
- Death of the novel
- Death of the Novel... Sort Of
- Is the novel dead?
- The Novel is Dead, Long Live the Novel
- Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult within 25 years
- RIP: The novel
- Does the Novel Have a Future?
- The Wake for Printed Books
- The Novel Is Not Dead
- Has fiction lost its power?
- Truth Is Stronger Than Fiction
- Where Have All the Mailers Gone?
- Fiction is dead. Again? (response to above)
- Death of the Literati: Good Riddance to Closed-Mindedness (another response to above)
- Are books dead, and can authors survive?
- Nude In Your Hot Tub, Facing The Abyss (A Literary Manifesto After The End Of Literature And Manifestos)
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Last modified on 5 June 2012