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A fragmentary novel is a novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book. These novels typically lack a traditional plot or set of characters and often are the product of a cultural crisis.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The oldest fragmentary novels are part of the (proto)-picaresque novel tradition.^[7]^[8] Some of these fragmented novels are also categorized as short story collections or epistolary novels. Some fragmentary novels are (posthumously) published unfinished novels or are partially lost novels.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Examples in chronological order

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Petronius – Satyricon (Late 1st century AD) (incomplete)
Apuleius – The Golden Ass (Late second century AD)
François Rabelais – The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (1532-1564)
Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy (1759)
Friedrich Schiller – The Ghost-Seer (1789)
Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1802)
Karl Marx – Skorpion und Felix, Humoristischer Roman (Scorpion and Felix) (1837)
Henri Murger – Scenes of Bohemian Life (1849)
William Makepeace Thackeray – A Shabby Genteel Story (1857) (unfinished)
Jane Austen – The Watsons (1871) (unfinished in 1805)
Gustave Flaubert – Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881)
Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Ernest Hemingway – In Our Time (1925)
John Dos Passos – Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Franz Kafka – Amerika (1927) (unfinished)
Giorgio de Chirico – Hebdomeros (Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician) (1929)
Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies (1930)
Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
Thomas Wolfe – The Hills Beyond (1941)
William Faulkner – Go Down, Moses (1942)
Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities (1943)
Raymond Queneau – Exercises in Style (1947)
Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1950)
A.E. van Vogt – The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950)
William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch (1959)
Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire (1962)
Julio Cortázar – Hopscotch (1963)
Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita (1967) (unfinished in 1940)
Jerzy Kosiński – Steps (1968)
Tomás Rivera – …y no se lo tragó la tierra (…And the Earth Did Not Devour Him) (1971)
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities (1972)
Renata Adler – Speedboat (1976)
Georges Perec – Life a User's Manual (1978)
Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Street (1983)
Milorad Pavić – Dictionary of the Khazars (1984)
Truman Capote – Answered Prayers (1986)
David Markson – Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988)
W. G. Sebald – Vertigo (1990)
A. S. Byatt – Possession (1990)
Tim O'Brien – The Things They Carried (1990)
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient (1992)
Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves (2000)
Ian McEwan – Atonement (2001)
David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas (2004)
Roberto Bolaño – 2666 (2004)
David Foster Wallace – The Pale King (2011) (unfinished in 2008)
Zadie Smith – NW (2012)
Michael Chabon – Moonglow (2016)
Jenny Offill – Weather (2020)

References

^ Wood, Carl (1973). "IN OUR TIME: Hemingway's Fragmentary Novel". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 74 (4): 716–726. JSTOR 43342874.
^ Power, Chris (2016-11-03). "Refreshing breaks: how fragmented stories can be fulfilling reading". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ Gioia, Ted. "The Rise of the Fragmented Novel". fractiousfiction.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ "Narrative Patterning : Alternate History and Fragmented Narrative – Cognitive Edge". Cognitive Edge. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ Booker, M. Keith (2000). Ulysses, Capitalism and Colonialism: Reading Joyce After the Cold War. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313312434.
^ "The Shattered Novel: Rules of Fragmented Fiction by Samantha Edmonds – Grist". Grist. 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ "What's a Picaresque? The Top 5 Novels". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ Mancing, Howard (1979). "The Picaresque Novel: A Protean Form". College Literature. 6 (3): 182–204. JSTOR 25111277.
^ Lane, Anthony (2017-03-06). "Reading Jane Austen's Final, Unfinished Novel". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
^ Laurence, Talairach-Vielmas (2014-06-02). "Saverio Tomaiuolo, Victorian Unfinished Novels: The Imperfect Page". Miranda (in French) (9). doi:10.4000/miranda.5981. ISSN 2108-6559.
^ Victorian Unfinished Novels – The Imperfect Page | S. Tomaiuolo | Palgrave Macmillan.

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Fractious Fiction by Ted Gioia - DEAD LINK

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