A Brief History of the Novel – Part Four

April 16, 2014 · by Eve Shulmister | in The Story of Books | tagged A Visit from the Goon Squad, Carl Jung and man's collective wisdom, Dr. Fritz Perls, Eugene Ionesco, Gestalt Therapy, Jennifer Egan, Kate Atkinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Life After Life, Magical Realism, Margaret Atwood, Metafiction, myth and 21st century literature, Pastiche, Postmodernsim, Tea Obreht, Technoculture and confusion, The Absurd, The Handmaid's Tale, The Name of the Rose, The Tiger's Wife, Tristram Shandy, Umberto Eco | 6 Comments

Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don’t mean anything. Or maybe they don’t mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. ― Neil Gaiman Late Twentieth Century (1950-2000) – Postmodern In the first three parts of this series I offered a working definition of the novel […]