![]() ![]() That perspective continues to crop up occasionally within this novel. ![]() I wrote in my previous review of the interesting perspective of whoever is narrating the story. …but that could be forgiven, one could even consider it a minor defect given the chaotic syntax, the absence of full stops, the complete lack of very necessary parentheses, the obsessive elimination of paragraphs, the random use of commas and, most unforgivable sin of all, the intentional and almost diabolical abolition of the capital letter, which, can you imagine, is even omitted from the actual signature of the letter and replaced by a lower-case d. I just had to mark this passage, in which a grammarian is criticizing the style of writing of a certain letter. ![]() Of course, one of the main reason I liked Death With Interruptions is because of Saramago’s unique writing style, the main feature of which is winding sentences and a lack of punctuation. Although both novels are very different with regards to the type of story that is being told, I enjoyed them both equally. I liked this book as much as I liked the one I previously read by the same author, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. Buy: Chapters | Barnes and Noble | Check your local bookstore! ![]()
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