No writer has not tried to confront the question of what a novel is, and yet few have achieved it with as much success and fortune as E. M. Forster did. Based on the lectures he gave at the University of Cambridge in the spring of 1927, Aspects of the Novel offers us the English novelist's main ideas regarding fictional narrative, which would become canonical for the studies of literary theory in everyone: it presents aspects such as history, people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, as well as inaugurating the notions of flat or round characters, at the same time that it subjects different fragments of contemporary novels to the author to an exhaustive examination that exemplify and illuminate the text. Endowed with great erudition and sharp irony, this is an essential essay for any lover of novels, whether as a reader or narrator; the glass of the writing mechanism through which he will be able to observe its gears and participate in all its movements.
