Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning – quite possibly an extremely important beginning – of British fiction.
In this issue:
Bill Buford: The End of the English Novel
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Angela Carter: Cousins
Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds
Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys
Emma Tennant: Alice Fell
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
Lorna Sage: Invasion from Outsiders
Chris Bigsby: The Uneasy Middleground of British Fiction
Frederick Bowers: An Irrelevant Parochialism
James Gindin: Taking Risks
Christine Brooke-Rose: Where Do We Go From Here?
J. K. Klavans: God, He Was Good
Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning – quite possibly an extremely important beginning – of British fiction.
In this issue:
Bill Buford: The End of the English Novel
Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
Angela Carter: Cousins
Desmond Hogan: Southern Birds
Alan Sillitoe: A Scream of Toys
Emma Tennant: Alice Fell
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
Lorna Sage: Invasion from Outsiders
Chris Bigsby: The Uneasy Middleground of British Fiction
Frederick Bowers: An Irrelevant Parochialism
James Gindin: Taking Risks
Christine Brooke-Rose: Where Do We Go From Here?
J. K. Klavans: God, He Was Good