The first is that he does a "Bob Woodward", reproducing "extrapolated" conversations, rather than putting the quotes in indirect speech.
She is not trying to provide a photographic likeness of her subject by reproducing a conversation word for word.
Carr comments, "It was entirely unethical of me to reproduce that conversation.
While the soundtrack reproduces a conversation between the admiring Mr. Landreth, who has his own problems with depression and anxiety, and the tentatively recovering Mr. Larkin, now a resident of a Montreal shelter, Mr. Landreth animates his characters as ruined, hollow figures, fragmentary human beings whose illnesses seem to have literally eaten away at them.
These he can remember in the most astonishing detail: whole conversations reproduced as if verbatim, precise descriptions of how he caught the birds, snakes, toads and insects he brought home, minute by minute accounts of the mishaps the family faced.
In his third novel Ya Maryam (Ave Maria), shortlisted for the 2013 Arabic Booker Prize and with a forthcoming English translation by Maia Tabet, he faithfully reproduces the difficult conversations between an Iraqi Christian family housed in Baghdad while the daily scenes of carnage are painfully recounted.
Her work is based on recorded conversations, reproduced by actors exactly, with everything that's normally excised left in: grunts, ums, repetitions, coughs, sighs are all there; you can never again listen to the uniformly heightened prose of composed drama in the same way.
His "novels," mainly epistolary, are exercises in verbal mimicry, reproducing every nuance in the conversation of the petit-bourgeois, of whom he was a sardonic but affectionate observer.
Despite the stereotypes, however, Routley maintains that Heyer had "a quite remarkable gift for reproducing the brittle and ironic conversation of the upper middle class Englishwoman of that age (immediately before 1940)".
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