N+1 Magazine takes a look at the recent trend in literary fiction that’s concerned with all things brains and neurology.
The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind—has transformed itself into the neurological novel, wherein the mind becomes the brain.
1 Trackback or Pingback for this entry:
[...] though I am not going to have a 50,000 word novel at the end of November, I am going to have a 30,000 word half a novel, a new music project, a [...]