The genre generation: Where did the novel come from and where is it going?

The Village Voice | February 8, 2000| | Copyright

If Homer in ancient Greece had tried to imagine the future of storytelling it seems unlikely he would have foreseen James Joyce's Ulysses. Given the great limitation of prediction, he might have guessed, correctly, that in 2700 years writers would still be rewriting the Odyssey. Like any author, Homer knew there are only a few good stories around, and in one way or another, storytellers can't help but return to them again and again. That's why good tales crystallize into patterns, or genres.

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