tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post2146395880689718637..comments2023-10-21T07:44:20.549-04:00Comments on The Existence Machine: Two paths for the novel?Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471801.post-62233932527647564652008-11-15T16:34:00.000-05:002008-11-15T16:34:00.000-05:00This is tangential, but Has anyone read the French...This is tangential, but Has anyone read the French author Jules Romains lately; his novel from 1914, THE DEATH OF A NOBODY, does an end-run on all stories of first person narration. The story of the aftereffects on others of a man who dies on page 11. His masterpiece MEN OF GOOD WILL abolishes all narrators by employing a group consciousness point of view. <BR/><BR/>Discussions spawned by literary critics only select what fit their own categories, thus creating a sub-genre on their own. Meanwhile, the category busters, both historical (in the sense of waiting to be rediscovered) and contemporary (waiting to be read and written) go on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com