Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
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About Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton was a contemporary New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it