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Theory of the Novel (Hardcover)
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Theory of the Novel (Hardcover)
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The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to
represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature
sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy.
Indebted to Lukacs and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido
Mazzoni's Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a
historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of
life: one of the best representations of our experience of the
world. The genre arose during a long metamorphosis of narrative
forms that took place between 1550 and 1800. By the nineteenth
century it had come to encompass a corpus of texts distinguished by
their freedom from traditional formal boundaries and by the
particularity of their narratives. Mazzoni explains that modern
novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever, by narrators
who exist-like us-as contingent beings within time and space. They
therefore present an interpretation, not a copy, of the world.
Novels grant new importance to the stories of ordinary men and
women and allow readers to step into other lives and other versions
of truth. As Theory of the Novel makes clear, this art form
narrates an epoch and a society in which individual experiences do
not converge but proliferate, in which the common world has
fragmented into a plurality of small, local worlds, each absolute
in its particularity.
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