Nobel Prize Winner-without end

[Pamela Jo]

Not the first to use the device of forgetting how to end a sentence. But nothing will convince me that someone will grab this out of the flames of civilisation's last library in order to preserve it.

Read the opening of Jon Fosse’s The Other Name

The Nobel laureate is known for his unique way of writing fiction. This extract is the beginning of his Septology sequence of novels, which is written without a single full stop• Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature

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[Hannah F]

Another case of the emperor's new clothes. Except it is the readers who will have to be the emperors.

 

[MattScho]

Okay, wow, that is not an enjoyable paragraph. I do not think we would think highly of this on pop-ups. I guess it gets at the quesiton of whether writing is art or craft, is simple expression, or communication?
It's not unlike the old Peanuts comic, in which Linus shows Charley Brown a drawing of a person standing with their hands behind their back, and Charley Brown praises Linus, saying "I see what you're doing there, You drew him without hands because you're noting that man, ultimately, can't control the world around, that his grasp will always fail eventually and so, inevitably, he will cease to reach and try to grab his fate..."
To which Linus replies "I drew him like this because I can't draw hands."

 

[Jake E]

This is the side of writing and literature that I can stand.
Pretentiousness.

 

[James Charles]

Not the first to use the device of forgetting how to end a sentence. But nothing will convince me that someone will grab this out of the flames of civilisation's last library in order to preserve it.

Read the opening of Jon Fosse’s The Other Name

The Nobel laureate is known for his unique way of writing fiction. This extract is the beginning of his Septology sequence of novels, which is written without a single full stop• Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature

www.theguardian.com

I read about this. This is another example of breaking the rules of writing. If I wrote this, the agent would trash it.

 

[Pamela Jo]

I read about this. This is another example of breaking the rules of writing. If I wrote this, the agent would trash it.

Unless you had run the gauntlet of "literary circles" for decades. Fawned on, courted the wealthy patrons, university and government funded circles that see you are recognised despite the lack of interest in you by plebeians. The foolproof way of getting that attention is to make sure you understand the tortured artistic souls of academic purgatory.
I'll take the judgement of Shakespeare's audience any day.

 

[Hannah F]

Unless you had run the gauntlet of "literary circles" for decades. Fawned on, courted the wealthy patrons, university and government funded circles that see you are recognised despite the lack of interest in you by plebeians. The foolproof way of getting that attention is to make sure you understand the tortured artistic souls of academic purgatory.
I'll take the judgement of Shakespeare's audience any day.View attachment 16657

Great quote!