![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a disorienting but effective way to present a character who seems almost entirely without an inner life of his own, whose whole being lies in anticipating the clickety-click of a ticker tape. In both books, he reports on his characters’ inner lives instead of dramatizing them, and in Vanner’s hands especially, the result reads more like a biography than a novel: a narrative without dialogue, in which Rask’s life is given to us more often in summary than in scenes. Diaz relies in contrast on a far one, and his sentences are at once cool, deliberate and dispassionate. Some writers capture their characters’ thoughts through what creative writing teachers call a close third person. Diaz’s own prose keeps an antiseptic distance of its own, no matter who his narrator might be. intricate, cunning and consistently surprising. ![]()
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