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A point by point debunking of yesterday’s Siegel piece in the Observer wherein he lambasted contemporary fiction.
Here we go again.
Every few years someone finds a platform to declare fiction dead, despite all evidence to the contrary. This time around, it’s Lee Siegel, writing in The Observer. Siegel’s piece flogs a tired horse, that fiction is less central to our culture than it was in the 1950s and 1960s, and not as good. It’s hard to figure out which is more problematic: how poorly Siegel’s argument is made, or how many things he gets wrong in the process.
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June 24th, 2010 at 11:57 am
“Fiction is dead” is an old tradition that goes back to the 19th c. I wish I’d kept the article I happened to come across in an Atlantic archive–but it was to that effect from that time.