{"product_id":"future-of-the-novel","title":"Future of the Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe're used to the novel being\ndeclared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will\nread it the last rites - yet the form remains more popular than ever with\nreaders. In \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, author Simon Okotie presents a bold\nfuture for long-form fiction, and suggests its evolution is far from over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOkotie begins by responding to and\ncritiquing John Carruthers' book \u003ci\u003eScheherezade, or The Future of the English\nNovel\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1927 as part of the 'To-day and To-morrow' series - the\ninspiration for our present-day FUTURES. He then cites others who have since meditated\non the direction of the form: Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, William Burroughs, Anais\nNin, Zadie Smith and China Mieville, among others. In doing so, he also tells\nthe story of the novel itself, from the realism of the 18th and 19th\ncenturies, through the early stirrings of modernism with its focus on the\n'inner life', right through to the abstraction and experimentation of 21st\ncentury postmodernism, and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll of which informs Okotie's own future\nvision for the novel - one that extends even further into the reaches of the\nsubconscious, and speculates on the uneasy role artifical intelligence will\nplay in the coming decades. \u003ci\u003eThe Future of The Novel \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich and\nimmersive portrait of an artform which, despite constant claims to the contrary,\nis more alive and exciting than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244129538392,"sku":"9781911545750","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781911545750_04942415-8f05-4a32-84d6-6127466fa3ec.jpg?v=1764605730","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/future-of-the-novel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}