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Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab’s ‘post-novels’ have a bit of everything

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par Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland

Yumna Kassab’s new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. It is, its blurb declares, “a fictional theory, a rant, a manifesto […] five mini-novels or else five post-novels”.

But what is a post-novel? And what is the theory of everything?

Review: The Theory of Everything – Yumna Kassab (Ultimo Press)

A novel is usually thought of as a work of prose fiction that seeks to represent the world (or its own world, if we think of fantasy or…

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