I am currently reading Satantango and one thing that stood out to me is Laszlo Krasznahorkai's tendency of not breaking paragraphs in this book(I don't know if it's the same case in all of his works). I am currently at something like 40 pages and there hasn't been a single paragraph break. And this made me wonder how common is this technique? I have only ever really noticed this in Works of Thomas Bernhard and Laszlo Krasznahorkai(and in Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and have heard the same happens in the Works of Jon Fosse where there are very few or almost no paragraph breaks. It's a very unusual technique for me(I am really not that well read)Even the writers( whom I have read) who are notorious for writing very long sentences like, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Charles Dickens or Cormac McCarthy have paragraph breaks. But Bernhard, Krasznahorkai and Marquez in Autumn of Patriarch not only do write quite long sentences but also chapter length paragraphs.
And this raises my questions, who are some of the other writers/books with this same technique and does it have some common progenitor?
It isn't really a big problem. I am just really curious about this type of style. It creates a sense of density which is very unique and fascinating for me.
Thanks,if you answer.
by Effective_Bat_1529