Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world
The TED Interview
The Power of the Novel
The novel allows a reader to enter the consciousness of another human being, which i agree is may be its great power compared to all other forms of art. A character observes near the end of the book that own your own unconscious posed an existential threat to fiction. There there is a sensehere, in imagining this technology, that it would be the one thing that could do what the novel has historically done incredibly well. This would take it to a new level when you actually are entering the mind and the experience of being another sensient human being in the world.
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