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This Pulitzer Prize Winner is Anti-mind
This Pulitzer Prize Winner is Anti-mind
Angel Werth
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The book that won the 2026 Pulitzer
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Prize for fiction doesn't use a single
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period. And that makes it not just bad
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aesthetically, but bad for readers. The
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divisions of sentences, paragraphs,
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sections, and chapters in a well
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ststructured piece of writing enable us
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to integrate the units it contains into
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something comprehensible. This author's
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refusal to group his concepts into
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sentences not only muddles what exactly
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his ideas are, it represents a rejection
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of meaning and clarity. As such, good
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fiction writing sometimes involves
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breaking grammatical principles if doing
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so serves a purpose that can't be served
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by following those principles. But this
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is not what this book does. Its author
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placed the desire to convey an emotional
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impression about war over the use of
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reason as though the two are necessarily
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opposed and the result is not brilliant
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insight but dreary muddiness. Through
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Angel Down, Daniel Krauss rejects the
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conceptual nature of literature, the
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fact that the medium depends upon the
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ability of its audience to retain and
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categorize huge amounts of information
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stored and used through words and their
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relationships. He is in effect
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attempting to construct a shrine using
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materials he either does not understand
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or holds them intact.
