‘Today we (…) find ourselves in a world globally linked by media that provide us with continous information from the whole world about the whole world. This has an affect on literary fiction, which can react in one of two ways. It can either reinforce the difference between fictional storytelling and the flow of information, defending fiction’s ability to select what it is important and exclude what is not, as Sontag argues. Or it can aim to incorporate the overload of information into the story, thereby challenging the boundaries of what storytelling entails, but in effect creating stories that respond to what seems to be the current cultural conditions of information processing.’

- Kristin Veel, Narrative Negotiations: Information Structures in Literary Fiction (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), pp. 9-10.