A new age of fiction

What is the future for the novel? A very dark one, and perhaps none at all, a view expressed with grave concern by the most highly regarded critics at a time when we all sense that we are entering, with the new century, a period of momentous change. How could we fail to perceive that the new era brings with it a new sensibility and fundamental changes in our mental bearings? standing on the threshold of a new century …. Fear not: I speak of course to the dying days of the nineteenth century and the start of the troubling