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Old 02-13-2007, 09:14 AM   #49
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I'm trying to get my way through Blindness.

The premise is fascinating, but the writing is getting to me. I'm sure part of it is bad translation, but it's more than that, there are stylistic choices that are just grating on me. Such as the fact that there are no quotation marks, line breaks, or anything to distinguish dialog. Just big paragraph after big paragraph with no distinction between who is talking. The whole book is feeling a bit pretentious. Is that common for Nobel winning authors?
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