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The specific object of what Broch liked to call “novelistic knowledge” is existence.
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This means that what Broch calls “novelistic knowledge” is concerned with existence itself: what it means to be alive, to experience the world, and to live as a person. The quote presents this kind of knowledge as focused not on one narrow fact or subject, but on existence as a whole.
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- The Paris Review, “The Art of Fiction No. 81”
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