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Thanks for reading it; I'm pleased you like it.
'The Road to London' has very intense moments, yes, but it goes in waves of 'compression and dilation'; I've taken a leaf out of Milton here (and most epic), and Narayan (in 'Waiting for the Mahatma') in how to create 'surges' in the waves of pathos and meaning, without letting them break till the end; it's a novel set on the open sea, figuratively speaking. It also builds more slowly. There's a difference in the way one writes novels and short stories, I think: short stories tend to end up being more 'compressed'. Furthermore, 'The Tree of Knowledge' is pure stream of consciousness with a metaphysical and transcendental dimension, thus has no plot; 'The Road to London' has a plot, which of course affects its emotional intensity.
The genre... Well, it's a bildungsroman, but I do know it is a bit unusual in the way it is written. I need to go back about 150 years now; I believe 'Wuthering Heights' started a genre which was then dropped by literature, the spiritual novel; the very soul (not so much the psyche or the mind) is the focus of Emily Bronte's novel, so, having learnt from Modernism and Postmodernism a few lessons, I thought it was time someone picked up the great lead that she had given the world.
As to poetry/ prose, the language, style and sentences I use are heavily indebted to Woolf; I absolutely adore the poetic quality of her sentences, the rhythm of her prose; there is also the hallucinatory quality that poetry can bring to prose we find in D. Jones's 'In Parenthesis'; and of course, having been writing poetry for a ling time now, this has had an effect on the style of the novel.
Thanks for your questions.