Fragmentary novel
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)
- 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)
- Giorgio de Chirico – Hebdomeros (Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician) (1929)
- 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)
- Fritz Leiber – The Wanderer (1964)
- Bob Dylan – Tarantula A Fragmentary Novel (1966)
- Richard 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)
- Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street (1983)
- Keri Hulme – The Bone People (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)
- Anna Pammrová – Antieva (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)
- 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 Kitteridge (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)
- Fabiano Gummo – Presente Contínuo, volume 1: 2013 (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)
- Fabiano Gummo – Presente Contínuo, volume 2: 2015 (2016)
- Fabiano Gummo – Presente Contínuo, volume 3: 2017 (2018)
- Jenny Offill – Weather (2020)
gollark: I've loaded up the simulation with moons.
gollark: Wouldn't really be very useful as a light source, and I think that would break things.
gollark: I'm waiting for Steam to go through its ridiculous updating so I can "simulate" it in Universe Sandbox.
gollark: The less bad way would probably be to just install really bright lights of some sort on it, powered by fusion or something, but it wouldn't illuminate much of Mars.
gollark: Ah yes, the highly advanced space simulation engine, I should try it in that.
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 (in French) (9). ISSN 2108-6559.
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