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“The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in our real lives, we know very little about our parents as they were before our birth; we have only fragmentary knowledge of the people close to us: we see them come and go and scarcely have they vanished than their place is taken over by others: they form a long line of replaceable beings. Only the novel separates out an individual, trains a light on his biography, his ideas, his feelings, makes him irreplaceable: makes him the center of everything.”

Knowledge Individuality Heidegger The Novel

Book:Encounter

Source: Encounter

“It's both an alternative history of the novel and a history of the alternative novel.”

Novel The Novel

Book:The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

Source: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

“There was no great novel of the nineties. The last major books came out in the eighties, and they were Blood Meridian and then I’d say White Noise by Don DeLillo, who very well might have seen where everything was heading and whose work then articulated it all very well.”

White Noise Cormac Mccarthy 1980s Don Delillo 1990s Blood Meridian The Novel

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo