CLAIRE'S PICK What is fiction and how does one enter into it? Composed in the tense of Literature, Lara Mimosa Montess The Time of the Novel is a book about detours, psychic swerves, and surprising encounters with the Real as it converges with the written. A disaffected young woman seeking self-estrangement and withdrawal from the world decides to quit her day job as a bookseller to live out, or live in, an experiment: to become a full-time narrator. She moves through sentences, afternoons, a rented apartment, an artists studio, a party, the post office with the flowering focus of a realist novel, transposing physical and social life to the space of fiction. As she chronicles the process of becoming a subject in writing, the narrator confronts her fantasy of uninterrupted interiority and its limits. Paperback | 88 pages | 5.37" x 8.00"
