I’m assuming “does not feel like a novel” refers to how more and more so-called novels don’t adhere to certain realist narrative conventions, while still operating within the bounds of realism. If I could articulate that feeling, where would it have come from? Could I trust it? And if, by broader consensus, nothing feels like a novel nowadays, is this cause to grieve or rejoice? I found myself wondering what a novel, good or otherwise, might feel like to me. THE MORNING STAR by Karl Ove Knausgaard | Translated by Martin AitkenĪ reviewer for this newspaper, writing about Patricia Lockwood’s 2021 novel, “ No One Is Talking About This,” described the author, glowingly, as a “modern word witch,” before settling on this conclusion: “For all the local beauty and humor of ‘No One Is Talking About This,’ it does not feel like a good novel, exactly, because it does not feel like a novel at all.
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