Can someone give an example to explain why traditional novels have declined?

1, the decline of traditional novels is due to the birth of film art, traditional novels mainly rely on its narrative and plot to attract people, while movies are more narrative, more expressive of plot and more attractive than words, which will inevitably steal the audience of novels. Therefore, for a long time, avant-garde novelists have been looking for the unique advantages of novels, such as highlighting the fuzziness of psychological description and words, from which the stream of consciousness technique and Kafka-style fuzzy novels were born, all to prove the irreplaceable nature of novels. The birth of movies, especially the changes in the field of novels, led to the inevitable decline of traditional novels.

2. Kundera thinks that there are three kinds of novels: narrative, descriptive and thinking. At present, if the novel is only used to describe or portray a story as in the past, its function has obviously not been fully exerted. Novel is a very free art form. It can express its thinking flexibly without strong material conditions, which is destined to become a carrier of the author's thinking more and more. So novels should be more and more divorced from the essence of entertainment. Reading novels should no longer be a pastime, but a kind of thinking, just like reading a philosophy book. The most important function of traditional novels is entertainment, so they will gradually retreat to the second place on the road of novel progress.

3. The traditional novel writing technique is monotonous, which is not enough to reflect people's inner world. I don't need to say more. Look at Ulysses, its psychological description has reached the point where traditional writing techniques are inadequate.

The above is my opinion, which is very immature. I recommend you take a look at the master's opinion.

Milan Kundera mentioned the end of the novel in his Art of Fiction. He refers to the end of traditional novels. I can't sum up his views, so I won't write them out. Interested parties may wish to have a look.