Monday, December 03, 2012

Run-on sentences …

James Wood: The Novels of Per Petterson : The New Yorker. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


Readers who know only Petterson’s most successful (also more straightforward and less interesting) novel, “Out Stealing Horses,” which won many prizes when it appeared in English translation, in 2005, might be surprised to encounter these run-on sentences, tripping over their own dropped clauses, pricked with intermittence, properly punctuated but curiously unpunctual.

I reviewed Out Stealing Horses and praised it greatly. A subsequent Petterson novel that I undertook to review simply didn't hold my interest. In fact, I can't even remember the name of it. 

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