The Novel: A Biography - by Michael Schmidt

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is geographically and culturally boundless and influenced by great novelists working in other languages. Michael Schmidt, choosing as his travel companions not critics or theorists but other novelists, does full justice to its complexity.

"The Novel isn't just a marvelous account of what the form can do; it is also a record, in the figure who appears in its pages, of what it can do to us. The book is a biography in that sense, too. Its protagonist is Schmidt himself, a single reader singularly reading." -- William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic 





Michael Schmidt is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow and a writer in residence at St John's College, Cambridge. He is founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and for more than four decades editor of PN Review, the literary magazine.

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