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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Are people always so quick to assign pretentiousness to practices that don't align with their own personal preferences? I guess since I've always considered writing an art form, I don't quite understand the resentment directed toward someone who chooses to display an "artistic" penchant in a work no one has to read if they don't want to. Is there a fear that your favorite author(s) might "catch" this affliction or something?
I understand not liking something. That's perfectly normal. I just don't get the immediate leap to pretentiousness (by some). *shrugs*
And even if there is pretentiousness involved, I don't think I can use that to take points away from something I enjoyed reading -- that was well written. I guess didn't know humbleness was such a sought-after character trait in writers/writing.
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Pretty much yes. It's especially silly to accuse Cormac Mccarthy of being a pretentious postmodernist as he has very simple and clearwriting style. As for quotation marks
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McCarthy doesn’t use ‘em. In his Oprah interview, he says MacKinlay Kantor was the first writer he read who left them out. McCarthy stresses that this way of writing dialogue requires particular deliberation. Speaking of writers who have imitated him, he says, “You really have to be aware that there are no quotation marks, and write in such a way as to guide people as to who’s speaking.” Otherwise, confusion reigns.
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http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/c...ion-rules.html
He excludes quotation marks because it forces him to be more clear when he writes.
The Road is the only Mccarthy book i've read. I didn't have a problem with the lack of quotation marks. Considering how the characters talked and the writing style, quotation marks were unnecessary.