There’s Catholic prose and Protestant prose. Flannery O’Connor’s prose is Catholic f&^%$& prose. John Updike’s prose is Protestant f&^%$& prose. And that’s fine. There’s also Jewish prose, which dominated my whole reading staples in my twenties. I wanted to be the next great Jewish writer, which was difficult, as I was a ginger-haired child in Cork, in the south of Ireland. That didn’t work out. Without being too reductive, I would say the Protestant strain is to strip down and to pare back, to reduce. Beckett is a Protestant writer. Joyce is a Catholic writer. Joyce piles it all on to the f&^%$% page.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:38:14 +0000
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