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A fragmentary novel is a novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book. These novels typically lack a traditional plot or set of characters and often are the product of a cultural crisis[1][2][3][4][5][6] The oldest fragmentary novels are part of the (proto)-picaresque novel tradition.[7][8] Some of these fragmented novels are also categorized as short story collections or epistolary novels. Some fragmentary novels are (posthumously) published unfinished novels or are partly lost novels.[9][10][11]
Examples in chronological order
- Petronius - Satyricon (Late 1st century AD) (incomplete)
- Apuleius - Asinus aureus (The Golden Ass) (Late second century AD)
- François Rabelais - La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel (Gargantua and Pantagruel) (1532-1564)
- Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy (1759)
- Friedrich Schiller - Ghost-Seer (1789)
- Novalis - Die Lehrlinge zu Sais (The Novices at Sais) (1798)
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - Lucinde (1799)
- Novalis - Hymns to the night (1800)
- Novalis - Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802)
- Karl Marx - Skorpion und Felix, Humoristischer Roman (Scorpion and Felix) (1837)
- Henri Murger - Scènes de la vie de bohème (1849)
- William Makepeace Thackeray - A Shabby Genteel Story (1857) (unfinished)
- Jane Austen - The Watsons (1871) (unfinished in 1805)
- Jean Paul - Der Komet oder Nikolaus Marggraf (1862)
- Gustave Flaubert - Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881)
- James Joyce - Dubliners (1914)
- Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
- António Ferro - Leviana: novela em fragmentos (Frivolous) (1921)
- Joseph Roth - Das Spinnennetz (The Spider's Web) (1923)
- Ernest Hemingway - In our Time (1925)
- John Dos Passos - Manhattan Transfer (1925)
- Franz Kafka - Amerika (1927) (unfinished)
- Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies (1930)
- John Dos Passos - USA Trilogy (1930-1936)
- Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two-Birds (1939)
- Thomas Wolfe - The Hills Beyond (1941)
- Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon (1941) (unfinished)
- William Faulkner - Go Down, Moses (1942)
- Robert Musil - Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities) (1943)
- A.E. van Vogt - The Mixed Men (1945)
- Raymond Queneau - Exercices de style (Exercises in Style) (1947)
- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles (1950)
- A.E. van Vogt - The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)
- Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man (1951)
- Franz Kafka - Wedding Preparations in the Country (1954) (unfinished)
- William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch (1959)
- William Burroughs - The Soft Machine (1961)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (1962)
- Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook (1962)
- Julio Cortázar - Hopscotch (1963)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Giorgio de Chirico - Hebdomeros (1964)
- Fritz Leiber - The Wanderer (1964)
- Bob Dylan - Tarantula A Fragmentary Novel (1966)
- Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America (1967)
- Mikhail Bulgakov - Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Margarita) (1967) (unfinished in 1940)
- John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
- Gilbert Sorrentino - Mulligan Stew (1968)
- Jerzy Kosinski - Steps (1968)
- Charlotte Strandgaard - Indimellem holder de af hinanden (Now and then they care for one another) (1969)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhbition (1970)
- Tomás Rivera - …y no se lo tragó la tierra (…And the Earth Did Not Devour Him) (1971)
- Ishmael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo (1972)
- Italo Calvino - Le città invisibili (Invisible Cities) (1972)
- B.S. Johnson - See The Old Lady Decently (1975)
- Renata Adler - Speedboat (1976)
- Michael Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter (1976)
- Barry Hannah - Airships (1978)
- Ingeborg Bachmann - The Book of Franza (1978) (unfinished)
- Georges Perec - Life a User's Manual (1978)
- Italo Calvino - Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If On a Winter's Night a Traveler) (1979)
- Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)
- Philip K. Dick - VALIS (1981)
- D.M. Thomas - The White Hotel (1981)
- Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet (1982)
- Astrid Roemer - Over de gekte van een vrouw (On the madness of a woman) (1982)
- Keri Hulme - The Bone People (1984)
- Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street (1984)
- Milorad Pavić - Hazarski rečnik (Dictionary of the Khazars) (1984)
- Truman Capote - Answered Prayers (1986)
- Ken Kesey - Demon Box (1986)
- David Markson - Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988)
- Marion Bloem - Vaders van betekenis (1989)
- Georges Perec - 53 jours (1989) (unfinished)
- W. G. Sebald - Vertigo (1990)
- A.S. Byatt - Possession (1990)
- Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried (1990)
- Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient (1992)
- Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted (1993)
- Carole Maso - Ava (1993)
- Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting (1993)
- David Markson - Reader’s Block (1996)
- Don DeLillo - Underworld (1997)
- Libuše Moníková - Der Traumel (2000)
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves (2000)
- Jim Crace - The Devil's Larder (64 short pieces) (2001)
- Adi Sorek - Seven Matrons (2001)
- David Markson - This is not a novel (2001)
- Ian McEwan - Atonement (2001)
- Hugo Burel - Tijeras de Plata (2003)
- Anna Pammrová - Antieva (2003)
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
- David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (2004)
- Roberto Bolaño - 2666 (2004)
- David Markson - Vanishing Point (2004)
- Mark Z. Danielewski - The Fifty Year Sword (2005)
- Mark Z. Danielewski - Only Revolutions (2006)
- Daniel Handler - Adverbs (2006)
- Olga Tokarczuk - Bieguni (Flights) (2007)
- György Dragomán - The White King (2007)
- David Markson - The Last Novel (2007)
- Michael Müller - Caoutchouc (2008)
- Micheline Marcom - A Brief History of Yes (2008)
- Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteredge (2008)
- Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book (2008)
- Vladimir Nabokov - The Original of Laura (2009) (unfinished in 1977)
- Joanna Kavenna - The Birth of Love (2010)
- Janusz Głowacki - Good Night, Dżerzi (2010)
- Umberto Eco - Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery) (2010)
- Laurent Binet - HHhH (2010)
- Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
- David Gordon - The Serialist (2010)
- Tom Rachman - The Imperfectionists (2010)
- T.C. Boyle - When the Killing's Done (2011)
- Hari Kunzru - Gods Without Men (2011)
- Bae Suah - 서울의 낮은 언덕들 (Recitation) (2011)
- Tea Tulić - Kosa posvuda (Hair Everywhere) (2011)
- David Foster Wallace - The Pale King (2011) (unfinished in 2008)
- Zadie Smith - NW (2012)
- Nguyễn Một - Moving against the sun (2012)
- Junot Díaz - This is How You Lose Her (2012)
- Ariana Harwicz - Die, My Love (2012)
- Mark Haddon - The Red House (2012)
- Sergio De La Pava - Personae (2013)
- Drew Gates - Blockpanda (2013)
- Jenny Offill - Dept. of Speculation (2014)
- Juan Alvarez - Nunca te quise dar en la jeta, Javier (Javier: I never wanted to beat you in your mug) (2015)
- Rodrigo Hasbún - Los afectos (Affections) (2015)
- Guillem López - Challenger (2015)
- Peter Rock - Spells (2016)
- Mishka Hoosen - Call it a Difficult Night (2016)
- Carolyn Zaikowski - In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (2016)
- Michael Chabon - Moonglow (2016)
- Han Kang - The White Book (2016)
- Carla Badillo Coronado - Abierta sigue la noche (2016)
References
- ^ Wood, Carl (1973). "IN OUR TIME: Hemingway's Fragmentary Novel". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 74 (4): 716–726. JSTOR 43342874.
- ^ Power, Chris (2016-11-03). "Refreshing breaks: how fragmented stories can be fulfilling reading". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ Gioia, Ted. "The Rise of the Fragmented Novel". fractiousfiction.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ "Narrative Patterning : Alternate History and Fragmented Narrative - Cognitive Edge". Cognitive Edge. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ Booker, M. Keith (2000). Ulysses, Capitalism and Colonialism: Reading Joyce After the Cold War. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313312434.
- ^ "The Shattered Novel: Rules of Fragmented Fiction by Samantha Edmonds - Grist". Grist. 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ "What's a Picaresque? The Top 5 Novels". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ Mancing, Howard (1979). "The Picaresque Novel: A Protean Form". College Literature. 6 (3): 182–204. JSTOR 25111277.
- ^ Lane, Anthony (2017-03-06). "Reading Jane Austen's Final, Unfinished Novel". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
- ^ Laurence, Talairach-Vielmas, (2014-06-02). "Saverio Tomaiuolo, Victorian Unfinished Novels: The Imperfect Page". Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world (in French) (9). ISSN 2108-6559.
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