The Death of the BookAn examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the book, The Death of the Book considers how bookish format plays a role in some of the twentieth centurys most famous literary experiments. Tracking the passing of time in which reading unfolds, these novels position the books so called death in terms that refer as much to a simple description of its future