IN HOW MANY LEVELS DO CHARACTERS IN NOVELS OPERATE?: A PRACTICAL PROPOSAL

Continuing with my reading of bibliography on the minor characters, this week I’ve perused David Galef’s The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993), a volume less well regarded than Alex Woloch’s The One and the Many but still quite remarkable. Whereas Woloch focuses on the 19th century novel (Austen, Dickens, Balzac), […]