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INTERVIEWER
You said once that you wrote dozens of drafts of your manuscripts. . . . Are you simply checking and rechecking your use of the language?
KOSINSKI
I wanted to make the language of my fiction as unobtrusive as possible, almost transparent, so that the reader would be drawn right away into each dramatic incident. I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself. What I’ve just said carries no value judgment. It is the opposite, for instance, of what Nabokov does. His language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind. My aim, though, is to remove the veil, altogether if possible.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Lermontov, Herman Melville, Flannery O’Connor, Marcel Proust, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, E. L. Voynich |
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