Babel Tower | Literary Precedents
Just as the novel is technically complicated, so is it hard to put it into any genre, although Frederica's story is not particularly unusual; many mainstream novels are about the troubles women have with their marriages. Babel Tower is a literary novel that contains elements of experimental fiction seen in other work throughout the century. Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925), for example, moves from the point of view of one character to another and presents how they exist in different worlds within the same geographical region, something that Babel Tower also...
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