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A Novel at War with Itself
The novel is, if not a “fragment,” then a vast agglutination of fragments, and at the same time a text, in the narrator’s words, “at war with itself."
Christian Moraru
Christian Moraru is Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His recent books include Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (University of Michigan Press, 2011). Forthcoming are his co-edited essay collection The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the 21st Century (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and the monograph Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (University of Michigan Press, 2015).