"Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things."

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The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.

— Alain Robbe-Grillet