tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7833353189527064346..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: 'This oft-lived heart-throb'Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-35851409990124848482012-03-15T23:25:19.233+00:002012-03-15T23:25:19.233+00:00The pattern is similar to that of Flaubert whose f...The pattern is similar to that of Flaubert whose first novel, 'The Temptation of St Anthony' was ripped apart by the Goncourt Brothers for being lurid, ludicrous & overblown (to his face as I recall).<br /><br />He completely changed his style & his next novel was the famously naturalistic Madame Bovary.<br /><br />I'm not suggesting ICB's writing is on a par with Flaubert, it's not, but her development contains a similarly abrupt stylistic transition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-7278243341465122052012-02-23T13:10:37.240+00:002012-02-23T13:10:37.240+00:00Oh I agree that life itself must have played a big...Oh I agree that life itself must have played a big part in that change - and the duration of time -but I'd never under value practise. Nor would I be sure re criticism from another writer. Many young writers ask for criticism - even if they then rage about it and go their own way...at least that's what I've often gleaned from the biogs I've readtricianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63045085608434923172012-02-23T10:58:51.409+00:002012-02-23T10:58:51.409+00:00Hmm I think there's more to it than that - the...Hmm I think there's more to it than that - the disjunction is too total. No one reading Dolores wld ever guess it was by ICB, adn that's v unusual. I suspect she more or less gave up trying to write a finished novel for a long time, and in the course of it life - mostly grief and domestic oppression - had turned her into the novelist she was. I'll find out in due course... I can't imagine her taking criticism from any other writer! If ever there was a novelist who did her own thing regardless, it was ICB.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-85695657442061977422012-02-22T22:22:09.413+00:002012-02-22T22:22:09.413+00:00She learned how to write by getting on and doing i...She learned how to write by getting on and doing it, then reflecting on it some time later when the fires of creative passion had died down! In between she probably showed it to an admired successful writer who tore it to shreds. She wept, then she grew up and got on with writing the next novel, her head somewhat cleared. And so on...Tricianoreply@blogger.com