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The 100 best novels in English? Irish writers and critics have their say
Fair play to Robert McCrum. Compiling a list over two years entitled The 100 best novels written in English for the Observer and guardian.com is not simply sticking your head over the literary parapet, it is running naked into no-man's-land with a target painted on your chest and a kick-me sign pinned to your back.
The brickbats were not long in coming, not least over the preponderance of dead white males, which engendered a backlash as predictable as it was deserved, led by his colleague Rachel Cooke.
Nuala O'Connor, whose new novel, Miss Emily, is published today, observed: "I did see McCrum's list and wept inwardly. No doubt others will say more coherently what I would say anyway, which in a nutshell is this: Two years to compile the list and in that time he finds just 21 out of 100 that are written by women? For shame."
Others remarked on the felicitous advantage that being published by Faber (Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, John McGahern and Peter Carey) conferred on one’s chances of making the list. McCrum was editorial director there from 1979-1989 then editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1996.
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Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here.
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To start by contradicting myself: I do not read War and Peace, or any fiction, for craft lessons; I have never raved about a novel or a story because it is well-crafted. Still, some of Tolstoy’s decisions stand out to me after reading War and Peace for years. Here are ten narrative decisions of Tolstoy’s that may be helpful approaches to writing.
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A simple and straightforward structure will do. Structure is one of those craft decisions that unfortunately one cannot avoid when writing a novel. Some novels may be remembered for their ingenious structures, but a novel does not have to have an ingenious structure to be great. A simple structure will do just fine. For instance, War and Peace has the most straightforward structure: the novel alternates between war (characters in the military settings) and peace (characters in the civilian settings). A complex book doesn’t have to have a complicated structure.
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We don’t always live in long flashbacks. Memory rarely takes the form of a continuous and complete narrative. In War and Peace, there is only one (fleeting) m
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