What does it mean to present a text as isolated paragraphs, or as one unbroken paragraph?.I haven’t finished it, but it helped focus some thoughts that I’ll try to get down now. And, as it happens, I’ve just picked up another new novel written in a single paragraph – this one in fact in a single sentence: Lorem Ipsum by Oli Hazzard. Riviere’s novel, by contrast, is written in a single 300-page paragraph, albeit in carefully constructed and easy-to-parse sentences. of Speculation after reading Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This ( the month before), all three books written or at least presented in isolated paragraphs, with often no great through-flow of narrative or logic to carry you from paragraph to paragraph. I wrote about the fragmentary nature of Offill’s writing last month, when I reread her Dept. Instead I’m going to focus on a couple of the books I read this month, and others like them: Weather by Jenny Offill, and Dead Souls, by Sam Riviere. Lots of fragmentary DeLillo for an academic chapter I filed today, yay!) (Lots of scattered reading as preparation for next academic year. This isn’t really going to function as a ‘What I read this month’ post, in part because I haven’t read many books right through.
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