List: Macaronic Prose Styles
1. Flann O'Brien
2. Thomas Pynchon
3. Raymond Queneau
4. Carlo Emilio Gadda
5. G.V.Desani
Special Mention:
S.J.Perelman
2. Thomas Pynchon
3. Raymond Queneau
4. Carlo Emilio Gadda
5. G.V.Desani
Special Mention:
S.J.Perelman
posted by Cheshire Cat at 3:11 PM
7 Comments:
looks like i don't like this macaronic prose style (what is it btw?). i haven't read any of these people. and i have tried only Pynchon. Once.
I get impatient when writers use too many proper nouns in novels. too many short dialogues, technical and slang language is another big turn off. I am guessing thats what macaronic means
I used "macaronic" to mean a mixture of styles, registers, genres. Writers with macaronic styles tend naturally to be comic writers. Flann O'Brien and Queneau are especially funny. You might lie O'Brien - "The Third Policeman" is an absurdist masterpiece.
I confess I've only read "The Crying of Lot 49", among Pynchon's work. I admire him, but admiration is not enough...
The Crying of Lot 49 is completely crazy horse...Pynchon is one of the most overrated writers of this century
Pynchon is very, very smart, but is that enough to make a great novelist? I'm certainly not willing to plough through "V" or "Gravity's Rainbow" to find out.
haha that's the rigth attitude. smartness is never enough
Hey, do plough through Gravity's Rainbow, or even V-- they're a really great ride, on a whole other level from Crying of Lot 49, and very little like anything else. I say this because there seems to be too much Pynchon-bashing going on here by people who haven't even read half of a full book of him (:)) and because I do also dig your other macaronis a lot-- Flann O Brien, Raymond Queneau (Exercises de Style, what a book!)
Hmmm, perhaps Pynchon is worth another try... I have an innate suspicion of American writers - their earnestness, their insistence on doing things on a grand scale. There are exceptions, of course - Shirley Jackson, Nicholson Baker...
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