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The child sex abuse scandal that\u2019s rocking the Roman Catholic Church guarantees that Linden MacIntrye\u2019s The Bishop\u2019s Man <\/em>will continue to chart the bestseller list for a while longer.\u00a0 Winner of the Giller Prize last fall, it\u2019s well worth the read, topical or not.\u00a0 In an interview last fall, in connection with his winning the Giller, MacIntyre talked about what draws him to the novel.\u00a0 As a journalist with CBC\u2019s \u2018The Fifth Estate\u2019 he has covered the story of the church\u2019s attempts to cover up incidents of sexual abuse.\u00a0 The novel allows him to do something that he cannot do as a journalist.\u00a0 It allows him to go inside the minds of his characters.\u00a0 It allows him to inhabit his characters and bring them to life as full human beings, with all their virtues and vices.<\/p>\n

In his book This Is My Country, What\u2019s Yours? A Literary Atlas of <\/em>Canada<\/em>, <\/em>Noah Richler takes up this same question as to what makes the novel special and seemingly immune to constant threats to kill it off.\u00a0 \u201cWhat sets the novel apart is the \u2018imaginative leap\u2019 that its author makes in order to create and then inhabit a character, and that its readers make in turn.\u00a0 This simple dynamic is what gives the novel its identity. \u2026 And in this assumption that readers make \u2013 that we are all, at some base level, alike \u2013 lies the magnanimity, but also the aggressive and even colonizing impulse of the novel.\u00a0\u00a0 For the novel is a hegemonic thing, righteous on behalf of a certain conception of humankind\u2019s place in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The novel does what other forms of storytelling (such as the epic and the mythic stories that we associate with \u201coral\u201d societies\u2019) cannot do.\u00a0 Again quoting Richler: \u201cThe novel says, \u2018For me to know you and portray you in good faith, I must remember that you and I are fundamentally alike.\u00a0 Perhaps only circumstance is what has made us different\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 Novelists do their work by \u201cputting themselves in their protagonists\u2019 shoes and making that imaginative leap, no matter their creations\u2019 extremities of character.\u201d\u00a0 There is no absolute evil in the novel, as there is in the epic and in creation myths.\u00a0 The worst characters in a novel are still human beings, like all the rest of us.\u00a0 \u201cThis quality puts the novel close to be an \u2018end of narrative,\u2019 if you like \u2013 a form of story that is as versatile and enduring as the belief in human rights that it reflects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others have less faith, or no faith at all, in the novel\u2019s versatility and endurance.\u00a0 Books heralding the death of the novel are nothing new, and the latest is David Shields\u2019 Reality Hunger<\/em>.\u00a0 The novel as we know it, with its linear plot and defined character, is, Shields believes, dead \u2013 or worse, irrelevant.\u00a0 \u201cConventional fiction teaches the reader that life is a coherent, fathomable whole that concludes in a neatly wrapped-up revelation.\u00a0 Life, though \u2013 standing on a street corner, channel surfing, trying to navigate the Web \u2013 flies at us in bright splinters.\u201d\u00a0 Our reality is fragmented, chaotic, asymmetrical, elusive and noisy, and since reality is what we hunger for, the conventional novel is obviously inadequate for the task.\u00a0 It\u2019s a throwback to a bygone era.\u00a0 We need something new.\u00a0 Shields\u2019 prescription is what he calls the \u2018lyric essay\u2019 \u2013 based on the collage technique, the structural equivalent of our splintered reality.<\/p>\n

This all sounds eerily familiar.\u00a0 Alain Robbe-Grillet\u2019s manifesto, For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction, <\/em>published in Paris in 1963, also declared that the conventions of the traditional novel (character, story, etc.) were \u201cobsolete\u201d and that the novel, to survive, had to move from \u201crealism\u201d to \u201creality.\u201d\u00a0 Robbe-Grillet: \u201cAll the technical elements of the narrative \u2013 systematic use of the past tense and the third person, unconditional adoption of chronological development, linear plots, regular trajectory of the passions, impulse of each episode toward a conclusion, etc. \u2013 everything tended to impose the image of a stable, coherent, continuous, unequivocal, entirely decipherable universe.\u00a0 Since the intelligibility of the world was not even questioned, to tell a story did not raise a problem.\u00a0 The style of the novel could be innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

It all began to change with Flaubert.\u00a0 \u201cA hundred years later the whole system is no more than a memory; and it is to that memory, to that dead system, that some seek with all their might to keep the novel fettered.\u201d\u00a0 For Robbe-Grillet, after Flaubert, after Proust, after Faulkner, after Beckett, \u201cTo tell a story has become strictly impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is all very seductive, especially when it is presented in terms that could have been drawn from Frye.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Frye: \u201cThe world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.\u201d\u00a0 And here\u2019s Robbe-Grillet: \u201cTo speak of the content of the novel as something independent of its form comes down to striking the genre as a whole from the realm of art.\u00a0 For the work of art contains nothing, in the strict sense of the term. \u2026\u00a0 Art endures no servitude of this kind, nor any other pre-established function.\u00a0 It is based on no truth that exists before it; and one may say that it expresses nothing but itself.\u00a0 It creates its own equilibrium and its own meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s missing in Robbe-Grillet and in Shields, though, is an understanding of our hunger<\/em> for story, for creating order out of chaos, for finding meaning in the fragments of everyday life.\u00a0 It seems to me that any theory that says that plot, story, the narrative impulse, coherent characters are no longer relevant to our \u2018reality\u2019 is bound to fail, because the desire to tell a story is part of our genetic make-up.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of what makes us human.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of the reason we have survived as a species.\u00a0 To tell a story, to inhabit\u00a0 well-defined characters is the imagination at work, creating \u201cout of the society we live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The novel is big enough to encompass many ways of writing.\u00a0 To say that there is one way that\u2019s more relevant, or authentic, or better able to reflect reality, or whatever, is to create a sort of mafia, an inner circle, a ruling council, that wants to dictate and say, Yes, this is the way we must now write.\u00a0 If it\u2019s not this \u2018lyric essay\u2019 \u2013 if it doesn\u2019t use the \u2018collage\u2019 technique \u2013 it\u2019s no good.\u00a0 It\u2019s not \u2018where it\u2019s at\u2019.\u00a0 It\u2019s not dealing with the \u2018reality we hunger for.\u2019<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quote from Frye that Michael posted on the blog the other day that I like very much: \u201cThe capacity to merge with another person\u2019s being without violating it seems to be at the centre of love, just as the will to dominate one conscious soul-will externally by another is the centre of all tyranny and hatred.\u00a0 John Donne uses a beautiful figure in this connection based on the metaphor of an individual life as a book.\u00a0 The spiritual world, he says, is a library \u2018where all books lie open together\u2019.\u201d\u00a0 In a literary universe where no one is trying to dominate and force his way to the top, to dictate the terms of acceptance, all kinds of books, all kinds of fiction and non-fiction, would lie open together.\u00a0 The \u2018lyric essay\u2019 could lie down with the \u2018conventional\u2019 novel, like the lion with the lamb.<\/p>\n

These thoughts are gathered in anticipation of the annual gathering we call the Frye Festival, which goes from April 19-25.\u00a0 Our website, with list of authors and full schedule, is www.frye.ca<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve scheduled two roundtables where these and related questions will be addressed.\u00a0 On Thursday, April 22, from noon to 1:30, Linden MacIntyre, Annabel Lyon (author of The Golden Mean<\/em>), and Martin Winkler will talk about \u201cStories, and What They Do.\u201d\u00a0 On Friday, April 23, from noon to 1:30, Noah Richler, Nino Ricci, Maryse Rouy, and Daniel Poliquin will take on the topic \u201cWriting Lives and Afterlives.\u201d\u00a0 What is the magic that happens when real lives are turned into fiction or biography?\u00a0 What are the ethics of using real people as models or sources of fictional characters?\u00a0 What happens when a novelist bring the narrative gift to the writing of biography?<\/p>\n

Footnote:\u00a0 While working on this entry Thursday morning (April 1) I turned on CBC radio, and to my surprise there was Linden MacIntyre, as guest host of CBC\u2019s \u201cthe Current,\u201d interviewing David Shields about his new book.\u00a0 To hear this lively exchange go to www.cbc.ca\/thecurrent<\/a> and click on the podcast for April 1.\u00a0 MacIntyre, as the author of a \u2018conventional\u2019 novel (The Bishop\u2019s Man<\/em>), more than holds his own.\u00a0 Shields was set back on his heels, from a couple of strong body blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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