Is failure the new literary success?

From memoir and self-care books to comic novels, writing about our flaws and imperfections has never been so popular. But can failing ever be a success, asks Lindsay Baker? Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on WhatsApp Share on Google+ Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Share on StumbleUpon Share on Google+ Share by Email By Lindsay Baker 20 June 2019 “Fail again. Fail better,” wrote Samuel Beckett in what has become a familiar mantra in the world of business and tech start-ups – along with ‘Fail fast, fail better’ – where the notion of failure as a route to success has taken a firm hold. Recent years have seen a similar preoccupation seeping into literature, particularly in the memoir sector. Karl Ove Knausgård devoted several autobiographical volumes to everyday failures in My Struggle, and since then there has been a deluge of ‘fail-lit’, both in fiction and non-fiction. Could failure be the new literary success? And if so, doesn’t that mean it’s not really failure at all?More like this:- Can fiction improve your mental health?- The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today- Is it time to rewrite fairy tales?In… Read full this story

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