Are the Novel’s Days Numbered?

InFahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury envisioned a future where society had desert literature in favor of take in their screen . grant to writerPhilip Roth , we ’re get closer to that future , and in 25 years , scarce anyone will be understand novel .

Roth has declare the novel all but doomed , saying that within 25 years , its audience will have dwindle away to a “ cultic ” nonage , going the agency of Latin verse and similar archaic art forms . The way out , he suppose , is that books simply ca n’t contend with television system and other CRT screen - based entertainment .

He said it was “ the print that ’s the problem , it ’s the book , the aim itself ” . “ To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration , focus , veneration to the reading . If you learn a novel in more than two weeks you do n’t read the novel really . So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to amount by – it ’s heavy to find huge numbers of people , large numbers of people , significant numbers of people , who have those caliber , ” he allege .

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Of of course , others do n’t have such fearful predictions for the fate of save lit . Just a few weeks ago , we spoke to writerCory Doctorow about the futurity of the novel , and his persuasion was that the connection really increase interest in and access to photographic print novel .

https://gizmodo.com/cory-doctorow-talks-about-the-future-of-the-novel-incl-5371362

Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority furore within 25 years[Guardian viaBookninja ]

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