When I was reading about the definition of the New Novel, I couldn’t help to think about a question: Is a diary could be a way of the New Novel? Or what is the difference between them? As mentioned in the reading “ The New Novel is only concerned with man and his place in the world”, a diary represents an entire world that belongs an individual. But because the author is the only reader of a diary, the world he created in the diary exactly concerned all objects (past present and future) in his life. The problem is: we don’t really publish personal diaries to public, could we see it as a form of the New Novel in literature?
In addition, a diary is also relatively subjective as what the New Novel pursuits. Here I mean because the author of a diary is the only omniscient, omnipresent narrator and character in it, simple we can see he is the God in the New Novel, also the absolute objectivity and subjectivity. In fact, a diary creates a universe other than the one we live. The sense of time, space and incidents become a circulation which flows between the only giver as well as taker.
I think, at least a diary could be a kind of private New Novel. How do you think?
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