“Tremor” poses existential questions while demonstrating just how different a modern novel can look.
Exaggerated rumors about the death of the novel have been spreading for at least a century, but I’m not concerned about its imminent demise. As a form for capturing the meaning and matter of our lives, novels still feel wholly up to the task.
Such a sharp cultural assessment, “this lack of sympathy for the Wells family,” sounds so harsh that it even surprises Tunde. What, he wonders, is provoking this “brutal tone in him”? But his consternation is ultimately the novel’s salvation. It’s the persistence of introspection that animates “Tremor,” that makes it a story about a man in constant negotiation with America and its mythologizing impulse.
“In the West a love of the ‘authentic’ means that art collectors prefer their African objects to be alienated so that only what has been extracted from its context becomes real,” Cole writes. “Better that the artist not be named, better that the artist be long dead. The dispossession of the object’s makers mystically confers monetary value to the object and the importance of the object is boosted by the story that can be told about its role in the history of modern European art.
“I have begun,” he says near the end of his remarks, “to experience the museum itself as a zone of sustained shocks. These are shocks that issue out of a feeling of moral whiplash: the meticulousness of curatorial practice on the one hand and those dark pools of human blood on the other.” It’s as though Cole isn’t satisfied just to show us how different a modern novel can look; he’s also going to demonstrate how intellectually and emotionally engaging a lecture can be.
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