![]() ![]() ![]() It would be interesting, for instance, to view a statistic comparing novels-bought to novels-read in our era. The question then seems to be not whether the novel is going the same way as the public telephone box but whether or not it has any significant role to play in our ordinary, everyday lives, rather than just on our rainy day wish lists. ![]() In a world where meaning often feels ghost-like, or at the very least as fleeting as fashion, it seems that what everyone wants is to de-loop, to switch off the alerts in favour of the kind of deep time experience a good novel can provide. Who, after all, once they've checked their text messages, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, and thumb-danced through their favourite shopping and blog sites, has time for the decidedly immersive and analogue prose of a novel?Īnd yet the obverse of this is, of course, also true. With increasing discussion about the dawning of our new digitally augmented attention spans, the viability and relevance of the novel as a "slow" artform is constantly being called into question. ![]()
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