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The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers - J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few - it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling.For the first time in literary scholarship, offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and 21st-century fiction.>
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Armen Avanessian is an Austrian philosopher, literary theorist, and political theorist. He has taught at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA, and at the Art Institute, HN Academy Basel, Switzerland. He is the co-editor, with Suhail Malik of Genealogies of Speculation (Bloomsbury 2016).Anke Hennig is Visiting Professor at University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany and teaching at Central Saint Martin’s College, University of the Arts London, UK. She is the co-author, along with Armen Avanessian, of Present Tense. A Poetics (Bloomsbury 2015).
