What Can a Novel Be?

Edwin Frank, the editorial director of New York Review Books, has written a nonfiction book called Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. The book examines the evolution and influence of the novel as a literary form, focusing on 33 novels from the 20th century. Frank's book is comprehensive and tightly focused, providing historical and literary analysis. He deliberately includes lesser-known works alongside acknowledged masterpieces to create an organic structure and explore the possibilities of what a novel can be. [Extracted from the article]

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