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supernight52@lemmy.world 1 day agoI agree- which is the way I believe most Cormac McCarthy fans view his writing style. I have never read his books, they aren’t for me- but I feel that bucking trends is the way art is meant to evolve. Some trends getting bucked are more annoying than others, though.
Do you have any authors that you suggest to others?
paranoia@feddit.dk 1 day ago
I tend to read books about religion and history, so there isn’t really a lot of breaking the mold there unfortunately.
Gormenghast and Neuromancer are the kind of heavy atmospheric and descriptive fiction I like, but they don’t really deviate from standard punctuation or presentation in any way.
BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Doesn’t Gormenghast have that dinner scene that’s a massive stream of consciousness curveball?
paranoia@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Well, I forgot about that. Looking at it, I’d say it was a part that I managed to get through quite quickly, since it wasn’t just describing the texture of a wall for a full page.
BasedMaquisEddington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nobody captures a wall in its decaying magnificence like he does. He makes the ugly beautiful.
supernight52@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fair enough- I had never heard of either of those before. However, I know Mervyn Peake has been a heavy inspiration of modern fiction. I may have to give the Gormenghast series a try- just super daunting.
Anyways, thanks for indulging my curiosity. Just had time to kill. Have a good one!
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 day ago
Gormenghast… I read a translation si I wouldn’t know about grammar rules, but it definitely broke storytelling rules. The style of the descriptions, how description and action blend into one another, how decay becomes almost a tangible presence through the pages… a unique book by any means