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Originally Posted by Bêthberry
Novels aren't sacrosanct and they aren't the only form of narrative. They came into this world under conditions relevant to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They may well leave this world when conditions change adequately to make them no longer meaningful/relevant/important/pleasurable/significant.
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Of course– and anyway, language may– no doubt will, eventually– alter so much that no one except a few scholars will be able to read the novels of the present. But that's a completely different reason, and it's unlikely to come about in the time-frame we're discussing.