"… the short sentence is artificial – we use almost never short
sentences, we make pause, or we hold on a part of a sentence end …but this
characteristic, very classical, short sentence – at the end with a dot –
this is artificial, this is only a custom, this is perhaps helpful for
the reader, but for only one reason, that the readers in the last few
thousand years have learned that a short sentence is easier to
understand, this is also a custom, but if you think, you almost never
use short sentences, if you listen …
This is not only when writing, when thinking, … in
daily life – if you are in a bar, and if you drink with somebody – your
friend, your acquaintance, an unknown person who speaks, who tells you
something – he wants or she wants to tell this something very, very
much, because we all have only one sentence, and we are looking for this
sentence where we have some power to say something, for one sentence,
in one life we have only one sentence and everybody in a bar or in a
school or in a university or everywhere, in the street are looking for
their own sentence, and this man or this woman doesn't look for a pause,
for this artificial, very easily understandable kind of sentence, no,
he or she always uses always very, very long, fluent word combinations –
this is very fragile, but fluent, you can't cut it …"
interview with László Krasznahorkai
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