Reviewer Praise for AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND
Mr. Bruce Charlton has some kind comments about AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND.
I have thus far read the first section – some 50-70 pages?) of John C Wright’s new book Awake in the Night Land – and I can see and say that here is an original and unique and very high quality prose artist – quite aside from any other virtues or deficiencies he may have as a writer of fiction.
What strikes me is the flexibility, the long phrasing, the assured naturalness (as conveyed by euphony or lack of jarring elements) – it reminds me most of when I first encountered Saul Bellow thirty-something years ago; when I was entranced by his prose-writing.
(I have come to dislike, indeed be revolted by, Bellow’s world view and the pretentiousness of his content; but remain intoxicated by the actual quality of the prose.)
Wright’s prose stands-out by its fluency.
Read the whole thing:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-prose-artistry-of-john-c-wright.html
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
