sebab tak mengikuti sangat perkembangan semasa; a few notes.
indie(ke?) pulp or whatever, really. the things maisarah notices in books she does not really enjoy reading.
– that is written merely for the momentary enjoyment of the reader (if any), where things and objects and subjects move in a dramatic fashion as to shock the reader. or to intrigue by grabbing the attention of the reader by magnanimity. one twist after another. one big movement after another. sensational.
– thus the thing that moves a story relies not primarily the narrative, but the plot. or explosive dialogues. like watching an indonesian drama or a simple thirty minute tv series. too much noise. in this case the question that is asked is what happens next? who will speak next? what must happen?
– nuances discarded. curiosity only extends to cause and effect that which can immediately be seen, but not what lies underneath.
-lack of depth. no scene or plot where the character can be seen staring deeply at
the window thinking of something, no long paragraphs of Raskolnikov comparing himself to Napoleon.
– mistaking bad formatting of sentencing/paragraphing and grammar mistakes as conveying reality as it is. that people speak this way. “Everything gonna be alright” is not alright. Unless you are specifically intending to convey how broken English can be spoken in Malaysia. depends, really.
– namedropping awkwardly, as if the voice comes not from the characters, but from the author/narrator itself. unless you make your presence known (macam Kundera, atau Danarto).
– the character never learns anything.
– matter>form
but sometimes, sensational is good. macam Nabokov (kut).
but in the end it’s all a matter of preference.
schopenhauer cakap;
“Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for
nothing or for very little. And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse — honora y provecho no caben en un saco . The reason why Literature is in such a bad plight nowadays is simply and solely that people write books to make money. A man who is in want sits down and writes a book, and the public is stupid enough to buy it. The secondary effect of this is the ruin of language”
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