The Novel Dies Again

10th July 2007 with 3 Comments

John Freeman in the Guardian and Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky in The Kenyon Review argue the death of the novel all over again:
And in the end, it’s not Tony who killed the novel, according to Freeman; it’s the decline of public education, the language of advertising, and the visual tyranny of the screen (television, internet, Blackberry), [...]

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