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1976591 No.1976591 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Writing styles that help create a picture the author is making

The obvious is Cormac McCarthy. His non-punctuated works all seem slightly detached from reality, or at the very least excessively gritty.

I especially liked Flowers for Algernon. Although the style is much more literal in this case due to it being a diary, it nevertheless paints a dramatic picture that would have not been there if the book was narrated by a second-party doctor.

Any others I should know about?

PS I fucking bawled at both the end of Flowers for Algernon and "Charly".

>> No.1976600

Anything by Zora Neale Hurston is a hell of a task


I loved Flowers for Algernon, it needs a film adaptation :(

>> No.1976602

>>1976600
...it's called "Charly". Look it up.

>> No.1976609

The sentence truncation in the shipping news was pretty distinct

>> No.1976620

To pimp one of my favorite books of last year, "The dream of perpetual motion" does some interesting stuff with time. There's no weird punctuation or anything, but every now and then he says, "and then he met the guy he would kill 15 years later" and analogous stuff. It's actually extremely titillating and not spoiler-y at all.

>> No.1976623

>>1976602
my bad I didn't know jeez

>> No.1976624

The Sound and the Fury is a clear example of this from majorly Quentin's and Benjy's perspectives - you hear the stories from their state of mind directly.