tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post3390672153493627640..comments2024-03-25T20:40:44.806-04:00Comments on Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID: Did This Guy Kill the Novel?Writer, Rejectedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241982229214057815noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-71941550122990871422008-03-08T03:39:00.000-05:002008-03-08T03:39:00.000-05:00awww, poor Robbe-Grillet :(awww, poor Robbe-Grillet :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-35359797763521558952008-03-07T09:59:00.000-05:002008-03-07T09:59:00.000-05:00i don't think experimental writing (in english) ev...i don't think experimental writing (in english) ever went away; it's just that the mainstream public isn't reading them anymore.<BR/><BR/>novels are meant to be messy and polyglot, as you say. otherwise, they'd be a short story. i do find it troubling when critics are always trying to define the novel as one thing or another, a la james wood et. al. remember tom wolfe's bizzare indictment of the modern novel in harper's that they don't have enough reportage? as if there's only room for one type of novel in this world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com