The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature by offering a definitive theory of the constellational novel.  A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form.  Beginning with Marcel Proust, the argument focuses on novels published over roughly the last two decades (between 2001 and 2020) by writers such as W. G. Sebald, Lisa Robertson, Teju Cole, Jacqueline Rose, and Olga Tokarczuk.  Taking inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, this book analyzes the distinctive ethics of affinity offered by these novels, and thus seeks to clarify one of the most intriguing and consequential developments in the contemporary novel.

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