In Lydia Millet's novels, characters pass from the comedy of daily life to the beauty of visionary experience. Her recent trilogy has just concluded with Magnificence, a novel that moves from the absurd to the sublime. We describe an undiscovered literary genre: the comedy of divinity.
Lydia Millet: Magnificence
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