Novelists on the Novel
“Novelists on the Novel” by Miriam Allott, published by Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated on December 30, 2024, spans 354 pages and is presented in English. This book explores the insights of various novelists regarding the craft of writing, drawing from a range of sources including novels, diaries, letters, and notebooks. It aims to provide both general readers and literature students with a comprehensive understanding of the novel as a literary form and the challenges faced by writers.
Readers will find discussions addressing fundamental questions about the nature of the novel, including what constitutes a novel, the problems encountered by novelists, narrative techniques, and the significance of character realism. The book delves into topics such as literature and fiction, movements and periods, and the perspectives of women authors, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of literature and social sciences.
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First published in 1959, Novelists on the Novel makes an attempt to set out fully what novelists both major and minor have to say about the practice of their art. It draws on the experience of English, French and Russian novelists so that the general reader and the more serious literature student can find out what they have to say about the novel as a literary form. The included passages come from novels themselves, from diaries, letters, notebooks, etc., and together constitute something like an aesthetic of the novel. Using these sources, the book tries to answer the following questions: What is a novel? what are the problems which face the novelist when he sits down to write a work of fiction? How is he to tell his story? What exactly is meant by the ‘point of view’? How should he manipulate time? How is he, in one of the possible senses of the word, to make his characters seem ‘real’? What are the functions of dialogue and how should it be dovetailed into narrative?
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