Writing the Novel: Abstraction as Source or Departure

The integral parts of a novelist’s art are representational of real life, yet the bulk of the writer’s literary life is consumed by the notion of creating an abstract novel. What would such a thing look like? How can an author tell if he has gotten close? Everett will discuss the most important part of this aim, which is defining just what he thinks he means when he says abstraction. 

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This is the Ridge Lecture.