Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders uses lots of very short quotations from different perspectives to build up a picture of a particular time in Abraham Lincoln’s life. The whole novel is written in a strange epigraph style, even in dialogue between fictional characters, but it seems to have derived that style from the quoting of actual non-fiction sources for a sense of consistency. I’m not convinced it works overall, but it’s an interesting experiment in form.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders uses lots of very short quotations from different perspectives to build up a picture of a particular time in Abraham Lincoln’s life. The whole novel is written in a strange epigraph style, even in dialogue between fictional characters, but it seems to have derived that style from the quoting of actual non-fiction sources for a sense of consistency. I’m not convinced it works overall, but it’s an interesting experiment in form.