{"id":169,"date":"2024-12-02T07:27:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-review-100-years-of-magical-thinking-literary-criticism-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:27:26","slug":"stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-review-100-years-of-magical-thinking-literary-criticism-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-review-100-years-of-magical-thinking-literary-criticism-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review \u2013 100 years of magical thinking | Literary criticism | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He is drawn to books that challenge the form itself in different ways, those that self-consciously or otherwise disrupt the more stately certainties of the great 19th-century novels. \u201cThe writers of the 20th century are ambushed by history,\u201d Frank writes. \u201cThey exist in a world where the dynamic balance between self and society that the 19th-century novel sought to maintain can no longer be maintained, even as fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Dostoevsky\u2019s \u201cunclassifiable\u201d book \u2013 the structure of which resembles \u201cnothing so much as a swept-up heap of broken glass\u201d \u2013 set the pattern of that new relationship, Frank\u2019s subsequent inquiries celebrate how the novel form became the place where changing ideas of fictional consciousness were tried out for size<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/02\/stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-edwin-frank-review\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/02\/stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-edwin-frank-review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is drawn to books that challenge the form itself in different ways, those that self-consciously or otherwise disrupt the more stately certainties of the great 19th-century novels. \u201cThe writers of the 20th century are ambushed by history,\u201d Frank writes. \u201cThey exist in a world where the dynamic balance between self and society that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}