Novel Archives - Berfrois

Novel

‘In vast, impoverished cities like Bombay, Cairo, Jakarta, Rio, or Lagos, the plot lines of the nineteenth century proliferate. Not ignorant mass suffering, but the ordeal of sentient individuals who are daily exposed to a world of possibilities through a sheet of glass-satellite TV, the Internet-that keeps them out.’

Technologics

“Somewhere a dog barked.”

‘That Berlin should start cropping up in novels is not surprising.’

Orson Welles never wrote a novel and yet…

‘In this way, and for this reason, the novel is the vital antidote to the mentality that the Internet promotes.’

Glaring absence in modern literature: the major Jewish fantasy novel

Are Swedes threatening their intellect through an insatiable appetite for crime novels?

‘Most postmodern novels render experience in ways not unlike a good session on the web…’

(Read part two of ‘Against the Impossible to Explain’ by John Domini)