A New Genre for the XXI Century: The 'Short Novel' or 'Micronovel'
The theory of a short novel is based not only on a size: any novel in its five-centuries history has had a book size not less than 100-600 pages. A novel must have a number of characters and three levels of narrations: what’s happening today, what happened in the past and what will happen to the characters in the future. A new genre —“short novel” or “micronovel” — has been accepted for publication by Peter Owen Publishes (London, 2006).
A short novel of 25-30 pages long is recognized by the number of scholars in different countries as a new important genre for the World Literature of the XXI c. since it is convenient to read in a bus, in the Internet, on CD. Now some authors in Europe have borrowed the idea of a “micronovel” and try to write the same books. Ten real novels in a small pocket book will be presented and discussed at the Conference in October.
Keywords:
Short Novel, Micronovel, 10 Novels in One Book
Stream:
Books, Writing and Reading
Presentation Type:
Virtual Presentation in English
Paper:
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Prof Yuri Druzhnikov
Professor of Russian Literature, German and Russian Department, University of California
Davis, California, USA
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During his career as a novelist, critic, historian, and professor, Russian satirical writer and dissident Yuri Druzhnikov has been called everything from a “traitor of the Motherland” to the “best writer of Russia”. He is a man of letters with idiosyncratic views, perceptive and put with wit and grace. Druzhnikov is the internationally recognized author of a diverse body of books that includes well-known Informer 001, provocative Contemporary Russian Myths: a Skeptical View of the Literary Past, the Alexander Pushkin psychobiography Prisoner of Russia. The exciting satirical novel Angels on the Head of Pin has been named one of the 10 best Russian novels of the XX century by the University of Warsaw and the best contemporary novel in translation by UNESCO. His new novels Passport to Yesterday and Madonna from Russia have recently been published by Peter Owen in London. Blacklisted in his homeland for 15 years Yuri Druzhnikov survived Stalinism and endured censorship and KGB harassment before immigrating to the USA in 1988. Now he teaches at the University of California, Davis. He is also Vice President of International PEN-club (Writers in Exile section) — the World organization of writers and journalists.
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