Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Gilbert Sorrentino on Ross Macdonald

 

As with all committed writers, form, for Ross Macdonald, was not something to chafe against, but to transmute and develop within its own container. Through his early deference to a rigorous and conventionalized form his later, unconventional art flourished. (Gilbert Sorrentino, "Ross Macdonald: Some Remarks on the Limitations of Form," in Something Said: Essays, North Point Press, 1984, p. 226)

...and of course, the same thing is true for Sorrentino himself. 

 

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