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“The Novel, Who Needs It?” (Encounter Books, 2023, 152 pages) is the latest work by Joseph Epstein, master of the essay, author of 31 books, 86 years...
Joseph Epstein, at times, seems to forget that the novel, for better or worse, is not a static form.
Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”
With 'The Novel, Who Needs It,' Joseph Epstein joins a raft of critics who have defended the novel. Here's what he, Jonathan Franzen and others are missing.