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Helmut Muller-Sievers
The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is influenced by the third-century Buddhist thinker Nagarjuna on the fictionality of truth and the emptiness of reality. Combining this insight with Nietzsche's method of intellectual genealogy and William James's transformation of emotion into "pure experience," Helmut Müller-Sievers proposes a way to talk about the experience of reading a novel that suspends the rush to judgment and ever-new "turns" in modes of interpretation.
In its meditative corporeality, it is also beyond the grasp of any AI. For Müller-Sievers, every experience is novel and every novel is an experience. He explicates this parallelism through philosophical works that privilege experience over knowledge (without denying the importance of understanding).
Interspersing analyses of Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and James with personal essays about the lived experience of reading works like Ellison's Invisible Man and Kleist's The Marquise of O, The Novel Experience shows that reading about experiences in novels has a transformative effect on the reader's understanding of what it is to experience. Teachers and readers should attend to these changes, acknowledging their singularity while creating a community within which they can abide.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 15, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9781501785634 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 148 |
| Dimensions | 126 × 201 × 12 mm · 170 g |
| Language | English |
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