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Everything and Less - The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
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Everything and Less - The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R598
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As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start
something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of
Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave
usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything
and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of
cultural experimentation in literature, with a confidence that
rivals modernism. Its innovations have little to do with how the
novel is written and more to do with how it's distributed online.
On the internet, all fiction becomes genre fiction, which is simply
another way to predict customer satisfaction. With an eye on the
longer history of the novel, this witty, acerbic book tells a story
that connects Henry James to E.L. James, Faulkner and Hemingway to
contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy writers.
Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the gutter
of complete critical disregard, it stages a copernican revolution
in how we understand the world of letters: it's the stuff of high
literature - Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, and Amitav Ghosh - that
revolve around the star of countless unknown writers trying to
forge a career by untraditional means, Adult Baby Diaper Lover
erotica being just one fortuitous route. In opening the floodgates
of popular literary expression as never before, the Age of Amazon
shows a democratic promise, as well as what it means when literary
culture becomes corporate culture in the broadbest but also deepest
and most troubling sense.
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