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The resulting terse, concentrated prose is concrete and unemotional yet is often resonant and capable of conveying great irony through understatement.
With her intense, concentrated prose style, Hadley is more serious, less funny than her fellow British adultery specialist David Lodge, but she shares his talent for creating multifaceted moral complications -- for engineering things to make the adulterer not blameless, but not exactly a perpetrator in any predictable sense, either.
Away from facts: free; yet concentrated; prose yet poetry; a novel & a play.
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Cooke distills Westlake's lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence.
Narayan's quality — which prompted Greene to describe the novel, retitled "Swami and Friends," as "a book in ten thousand" and to help its author through the decades it took to see him fully established — requires subtler and deeper adjustments on the part of contemporary readers than merely to prose (plain but concentrated) or size (slim but teeming).
** Narayan's quality — which prompted Greene to describe the novel, retitled "Swami and Friends," as "a book in ten thousand" and to help its author through the decades it took to see him fully established — requires subtler and deeper adjustments on the part of contemporary readers than merely to prose (plain but concentrated) or size (slim but teeming).
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Narayan's quality — which prompted Greene to describe the novel, retitled "Swami and Friends," as "a book in ten thousand" and to help its author through the decades it took to see him fully established — requires subtler and deeper adjustments on the part of contemporary readers than merely to prose (plain but concentrated) or size (slim but teeming).
Each is a concentrated exploration, in strenuous, densely knotted prose, of a small range of aesthetic questions, cultural phenomena, representative thinkers.
The tears they talk about are more concentrated, more aesthetic: in place of floods and puddles, we get Henry Green's dictum that prose should "in the end draw tears out of the stone," and Nabokov's exhortation to readers to "enjoy with tears and shivers — the inner weave of a given masterpiece".
More concentrated.
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