Deborah Levy's New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture: Why the Novel Matters

"I believe the novel relies on the imaginative participation of its readers, in much the same way Marcel Duchamp believed the spectator completes a work of art. This synergy is also worth defending. Even a novel that deconstructs the novel requires its readers to step into a voice, ideas, desires or fury that might be nothing like our own."