A recent novel take it for dead. Are a number of authors and critics in this area that have rectified it. He even gave tips on how the novel should be now. Well, now check the news, I meet some very interesting ideas Jorge Volpi regarding this issue. About his latest book of essays Contagious Lies -which I hope soon to have it in hand, "the author reflects on and gives a classification peculiar to novels.
"They are novels that you are infected as the flu virus that you read and entertain yourself during that time and then do not you come back to remember them. On the other hand, are those novels you read, then the characters, themes or problems are still present, pollute your imagination for weeks, months or a lifetime. These are the type that matters, but not always be achieved. "
just passed the century where most novels have hescrito is illogical to say that the novel is dying, that may not have classic novels to form a canon, but still there are always novels that transcend.
addition, the Mexican writer gives a sharp blow to all those who take it for certain death of the genre, pointing to a factor that takes very little account:
" few instruments allow people, for a few moments, believe they are capable of understanding or awareness approach to decisions, the problems of others, as with the reading of fiction and that is an important function of the novel.
"I do not think that the novel as a genre is in danger of extinction. It is reductive to think that new technologies, as soon as they demand and the rate at which we are subjected, is inconsistent with the existence of classical novels, nineteenth century, which in some sense seem almost dinosaurs but still have an enormous capacity for survival. "
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