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FREE INDIRECT LITERATURE NOW LITERATURE NOW Matthew Hart, David James, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Series Editors Literature Now offers a distinct vision of late- twentieth- and early- twenty- first- century literary culture. Addressing contemporary literature and the ways we understand its meaning, the series includes books that are comparative and transnational in scope as well as those that focus on national and regional literary cultures. Caren Irr, Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty- First Century Heather Houser, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect Mrinalini Chakravorty, In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary Héctor Hoyos, Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature Carol Jacobs, Sebald’s Vision Sarah Phillips Casteel, Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination Jeremy Rosen, Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace Jesse Matz, Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture Ashley T. Shelden, Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union Theodore Martin, Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present Zara Dinnen, The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture Gloria Fisk, Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards, The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism Christy Wampole, Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty- First- Century France Heather Houser, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data Jessica Pressman, Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age Sunny Xiang, Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War Thomas Heise, The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel Ellen C. Jones, Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas Free Indirect THE NOVEL IN A POSTFICTIONAL AGE Timothy Bewes Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup . columbia . edu Copyright © 2022 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Bewes, Timothy, author. Title: Free indirect : the novel in a postfictional age / Timothy Bewes. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2022. | Series: Literature now | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021054788 (print) | LCCN 2021054789 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231191609 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231192972 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780231549479 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Fiction—H istory and criticism. | Fiction genres—P hilosophy. | Postmodernism (Literature) Classification: LCC PN3347 .B49 2022 (print) | LCC PN3347 (ebook) | DDC 809.3— dc23/eng/20211117 LC record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2021054788 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2021054789 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-f ree paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Elliott S. Cairns Cover image: Private collection. Photo © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images. © 2021 C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. For t. The bottom has dropped out. —J. M. COETZEE The modern fact is that we no longer believe in this world. We do not even believe in the events which happen to us, love, death, as if they only half concerned us. . . . The link between man and the world is broken. —GILLES DELEUZE
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