Paul La Farge revisit’s Helen DeWitt’s novel in which intellectual playfulness is at the core of a boy’s education.
The novel isn’t a fixed concept. From its earliest incarnations to the modern day, writers have been playing with the fundamentals of the form, pushing boundaries and changing rules as they go. Sometimes these efforts are subtle, but sometimes they’re drastic, resulting in final works I like to call “anti-novels.” Anti-novels rewrite the rules of […]