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Out of curiosity, what makes McCarthy the anti-Leonard? I've only read McCarthy and not Leonard, but reading this article immediately reminded me of McCarthy in
by Buldak 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes McCarthy the anti-Leonard? I've only read McCarthy and not Leonard, but reading this article immediately reminded me of McCarthy in that it recommends a spare prose style.
- kolanos 9y agoGuess I'm thinking of Blood Meridian when it comes to Leonard's rule about not using extended vocabulary. Also McCarthy tends not to use punctuation, including quotations, so speech tends to be implicit in the prose. But it's hard to pin McCarthy down stylistically, so there may be a better example.