A Brief History of the Novel – Part Three

February 26, 2014 · by Eve Shulmister | in The Story of Books | tagged Absurdism, Albert Camus, Existentialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, French Algeria, Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Modernism, Mrs. Dalloway, personal consciousness, Postmodernism, Psychology, Sigmund Freud, The Absurd, The Great Gatsby, The Plague, Virginia Woolf, William James | Leave a comment

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities…it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. ― G.K. Chesterton In the first two parts of this series, I gave a definition for the novel and traced its origins. We examined its evolution from 980 AD to the late 1800s. And along […]