John Gardner by On Becoming a Novelist

Author:On Becoming a Novelist
Format: epub

There is, I think, nothing actively bad about this writing; but we get no sense of the speaker’s character, no clear mood from the rhythm (we cannot tell how seriously to take the word “escape”), certainly no sense of prose invading the domain of poetry. If you’re musical you will notice that the sentences fall naturally into 4/4 time. That is:

Compare what the same writer can do once he’s found his booming, authoritative voice:

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. . . .

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