Literary Devices and Innovations
Ellroy has developed a number of literary innovations in his work and these have found their fullest expression in this trilogy.
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“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
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“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
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