The Telephone In Literature: Nicholas Royle's 10 Favorite Uses Of The Phone As Character

Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringing in a novel or short story, the air is charged with magic and coincidence, superstition and death.

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