Anodyne
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
 
In a strangely typo-filled review (Tefahuchi?), the Guardian's John Clute nails the conceptual motor behind M. John Harrison's intricately constructed sentences:

"There are moments of high science fiction action, beautifully sustained by Harrison through the side of his mouth; and when we gain access to the interior of the site, we begin to get the point of Harrison's sometimes stiff style - a gnarly clarity of diction as much like 'ordinary' science fiction writing as the language of Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristram [sic] Smith resembles a travelogue - because that style is deeply devotional to the perceived world."

(Alternate by-the-numbers Independent review here, either machine-written or transcribed from dust jacket copy, noting but not further explicating the trademark style, its "precise images...")
- posted by cjb @ 6:27 PM


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