The Crisis of the Realist Novel
Briefly

Zadie Smith noted two paths for the novel: avant-garde exploration of language and perception in books like Remainder and traditional lyrical realism in works like Netherland.
Karl Ove Knausgård's autofiction, including My Struggle, introduced a third path for the novel, challenging traditional realist techniques such as plot construction.
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