..and resulted in controversy/
i only remember it was reaalllyyy difficult to understand.
2007-05-09 22:13:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is a short non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the BBC's Cutting a Dash radio programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss laments the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Her goal is to remind her readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. Truss dedicates the book “to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution.”
2007-05-10 01:32:31 · answer #1 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Book With No Punctuation
2016-11-04 13:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by nichols 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Molly Bloom closes James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' with an immense narration without punctuation. The book, and this monologue were hugely controversal in its day.
EE Cummings did much the same in poetry; abandoning traditional concepts of rhythm and punctuation.
I'm interested to read another contributer's suggestion here that the list of non-punctuated books includes the original bibles.
2007-05-09 22:59:18 · answer #3 · answered by yvonne_murakami 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The bible, in its original form, didn't have punctuation. That's one of the reasons why it's so tricky to interpret it. The people who translated it had to guess what some parts of it were supposed to mean, because without punctuation it can become very unclear. And there isn't any book that is likely to cause more controversy than the bible.
2007-05-09 22:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress, by Timothy Dexter. In his second edition he added a few pages that contained punctuation marks and how to use them for the reader to use at will.
Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
2015-03-06 06:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I know William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" uses stream of consciousness and very little punctuation, if at all. (especially in Benji's section).
It was deemed controversial because of implied incest between Caddy and Quentin.
2007-05-10 01:55:13 · answer #6 · answered by YSIC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am thinking James Joyce eithr Ulyesses or Finnegan's Wake
2007-05-10 02:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by chellyk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jose Saramago usually does not use punctuation. But his books are awesome. Check them out.
"Blindness" is a great book.
2007-05-09 22:17:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about the very end of James Joyce's Ulysses: Molly Bloom's monologue.
http://papyr.com/applets/concordancer/bloom.txt
2007-05-09 22:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Annabella-VInylist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
archy and mehitabel
2007-05-10 02:05:20 · answer #10 · answered by jamesmom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋