Posted by Jost on September 7, 2006, at 16:36:44
In reply to Re: {Pow!} Let's Make A Deal » Jost, posted by llrrrpp on September 7, 2006, at 14:12:56
Thanks, Ll!
I liked the idea of posts, because some of the early novels were in the form of letters-- and there's the added element of how one creates oneself-- or imagines oneself, esp in narrating oneself to oneself and to other people-- and the internet makes it more possible-- because in the epistolary novel, the people were supposedly already individual, formed selves, writing to someone who knew them-- also, it make me wonder how the way one images oneself is subject to conscious (or partly conscious) modification, and also whether the modifications can produce real change (maybe-- or maybe not? but it's a subject, anyway)
There were these early epistolary novels-- and they're really great--
It's a way that I think a contemporary novelist could get so much more into the inner lives of characters-- without having to be omnipotent, or use an artifiical, third person-- or an uncomfortable first person--
I think it could work--
Probably my favorite novel is Clarissa--- which is one of those-- but it's also probably the longest novel in the English language-- (there is an abridged version, which is pretty long, but it's such an amazing book--or I thought so a while back)
But of course you (Poet and Racer) would need your own subject-- so I'm interested-- what subject(s), characters, or situations, would each of you be interested in???
Jost
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