This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in contemporary fiction. It shows how this idea allows some of our most significant twenty-first century writers to re-imagine the ethics and politics of literature and to figure intractable forms of life and affect.
Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form
Table of contents
Introduction: After-Affects 1. Persistent Affect (Tom McCarthy, David Shields, Lars Iyer) 2. Abandoned Creatures (J.M. Coetzee) 3. Cosmopolitan Dissociation (Teju Cole) 4. Epic Failures (Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru, Russell Banks) Coda: The Descent of the Novel (James Meek) Notes Works Cited Index
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