Reading Aspects of the Novel | Alexandria
Read Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster. Unmasking the deceptive simplicity of storytelling, Aspects of the Novel shatters our assumptions about time in fiction. Forster reveals how narrative chronology is an artificial construct, arguing that stories exist in a perpetual "now" where past and future collapse. His radical insight? Characters aren't bound by time—they're bound by meaning.