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12161053 No.12161053 [Reply] [Original]

>To use the stylistic conventions of the traditional oral novel – the sequential narrative, characters 'in the round', consecutive events, balloons of dialogue attached to 'he said' and 'she said' – is to perpetuate a set of conventions ideally suited to the great tales of adventure in the Conradian mode, or an overformalized Jamesian society, but now valuable for little more than the bedtime story and the fable. To use these conventions to describe events in the present is to write a kind of historical novel in reverse.

was he right?

>> No.12161063

>>12161053
yes

>> No.12161091

Yes

>> No.12161109
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>>12161053
>little more than the bedtime story and the fable
I love Ballard but this is just clueless. The "bedtime story and the fable" are means by which humanity preserves and transmits essential truths about its own nature. Avant garde literature is all well and good, but tradition is equally important.

>> No.12161469

>>12161109
Sigh... you don't understand.

>> No.12161472

>>12161053
silly