>The novel as an art form tends to cease to be compelling in most
>societies once they solve the "marriage question" in social reality
>(if not in ideology) via abortion, contraception, no-fault divorce,
>women's education, & women's de facto economic independence from men.
>
>You can write a great novel that is not about "female troubles" (=
>women's troubles as well as anxieties of men troubled by women), but
>such a novel tends to be in some way "difficult" (e.g. _Moby-Dick_)
>and often unpopular.
You've become so Westernized, Yoshie! What about Japan? Is the novel an indigenous form, and does this apply?
Doug