The basic question I want to address is how literature, that is, a body of creative work with emotional depth and intensity, can survive and flourish on the Internet. The Internet has many implications for writers and artists. The language, conventions and community spawned by the World Wide Web affect society at large and inevitably creative writers and their products.
Whole books are now available on line.
I currently maintain The Madame de Lafayette Book of Hours Project site dedicated to the work of Madame de Lafayette. At this site is a translation of La Comtesse de Tende , a bibliography of Madame de Lafayette's work, links to sites related to her life, time or work and some of my own creative output and that of others. Madame de Lafayette provided the novel with a more compact and elegant form and characters with psychological depth. For fiction to enter the life of the next generation, it will have to be faster and more compact. It must, however, maintain its dramatic intensity and emotional depth.