The Novel, Who Needs It?

by Joseph Epstein

Book Overview

In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human beings. Reading superior fiction, he holds, arouses the mind in a way that nothing else quite does. He shows how the novel at its best operates above the level of ideas in favor of taking up the truths of the heart. No other form probes so deeply into that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1641773057
• ISBN13: 9781641773058
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"