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INTERVIEWER
How do you respond to people who say that the novel is a dying form, that it has lasted three hundred years, which is enough for any literary genre? Do you agree?
LEHMANN
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will. Nowadays, there are too many books and not enough good ones.
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